James (1) Backhouse
| James (1) Backhouse | |||||||
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| Born | 1794 | ||||||
| Died | 1869 | ||||||
| Residence |
Blackwell Darlington | ||||||
| Occupation |
church academic | ||||||
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contributes £2 to the Jamaica Committee (opposed to Eyre)
number after name to distinguish him from a fellow with the same name
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James Backhouse (8 July 1794 – 20 January 1869) was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia.
Backhouse was the fourth child of James and Mary Backhouse a Quaker business family of Darlington, County Durham, England. His father died when he was a child and his mother brought him up in a religious atmosphere. He was educated in Leeds and began work in a grocery, drug and chemical business, but he developed tuberculosis and he decided to adopt an outdoor life. An uncle helped him in the study of botany, and in 1815, with his brother Thomas, he purchased the nursery business of J. and G. Telford at York. In 1822 he married Deborah Lowe, and in 1824 he was admitted as a minister in the Religious Society of Friends. In December 1827 his wife died leaving him with a son and a daughter.