Known as "Father of Irish Gardening" and "The Cock of the North", he was a keen botanist, and brought over 400 different species of plant to Moira from Jamaica.
[2] Rawdon was a Member of Parliament for County Down, and a general in the army of King William III of England.
Besieged at Derry, he fell ill, but managed to escape, though his military career was at an end.
Rawdon was a botanist and imported 400 plant species from Jamaica, earning the name "Father of Irish Gardening".
The trees included the "Locust of Virginia" which was 30 ft high and had a trunk of at least a foot and a half in diameter.