John Lindsay Stewart

John Lindsay Stewart FRSE FRCS FRGS FLS (13 December 1831 – 7 July 1873) was a 19th-century Scottish botanist remembered for his conservation of Indian forests.

He passed the Indian Medical Service exam and was posted to Bengal in 1856 as an assistant surgeon.

In 1860, he left his medical duties to become Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Saharunpore under the jurisdiction of William Jameson, delegating for him during a year of absence.

In 1872, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.

[4] He was allowed to visit England in 1872 to pursue the production of a forest flora of the northern and central region.