George Sherriff

[1] Born in Larbert, he was educated at Sedbergh School and attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

After the close of the First World War, in which he was injured, he was posted to Nowshera, then in British India, during the Waziristan campaign of 1919–1920.

[3] In Kashgar he met the naturalist Frank Ludlow, and between 1933 and 1938 the two made several expeditions into the Himalayan regions of Tibet and Bhutan, collecting thousands of specimens, many of which were new to science.

In 1947 Sherriff was appointed OBE, and in 1948 was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour.

[3] On returning to Britain in 1950, he bought the estate of Ascreavie in Angus, where he cultivated a collection of Himalayan plants, described as having "outstanding horticultural value".