John Yule (botanist)

Dr John Yule MD FRSE FRCPE MWS (1762–1827) was an 18th/19th century Scottish physician remembered as a botanist.

He specialised in conifers and was the first to academically differentiate larch, spruce and fir.

[1] He was born in 1762 the son of Elizabeth Rose and George Yule, who were tenant farmers at Gibslees close by Fenton Tower near Dirleton in Haddingtonshire, where his family had been resident for centuries.

His proposers were Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Thomas Allan, and Alexander Christison.

[8] He died at home 23 York Place on 23 February 1827,[9] and was buried in the churchyard of the parish church at Dirleton.