Sir Robert David Colquhoun, 12th Baronet (15 May 1786 – 2 June 1838) served in the British Indian Army.
[1][2][3] In 1815 in present-day Almora, holding the rank of lieutenant, he organized the Kemaoon Battalion, predecessor of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, to fight in what became known as the Gurkha War.
[4] Colquhoun was a plant collector and early patron of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.
[6] There is a memorial to Colquhoun in the Holy Ghost cemetery in Basingstoke.
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