Robert Colquhoun (East India Company officer)

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Sir Robert David Colquhoun, 12th Baronet (15 May 1786 – 2 June 1838) was a British officer in the Indian Army. In 1815, as a lieutenant near Almora (now in Uttarakhand), he organized the Kemaoon Battalion, which later became part of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, to fight in the Gurkha War. Colquhoun was also a plant collector and an early supporter of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens; the evergreen genus Colquhounia was named in his honor. A memorial to him stands in Holy Ghost Cemetery in Basingstoke, where the headstone notes that he died at sea aboard the ship Reliance.