Robert Ormston Backhouse (10 March 1854 – 10 April 1940) was a British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.
[1] He was born in Darlington, County Durham and died in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire.
[2] Backhouse entered the double York round event in 1908, taking 13th place with 516 points.
His brothers, Charles and Henry, also raised daffodils, as did his son William Ormston Backhouse (1885–1962).
[1] In 2025, the Royal Horticultural Society led a public search across the UK for any bulbs of the variety Mrs R. O. Backhouse flowering in private gardens.