019 John Duncan by Alistair Lawrie

John Duncan Born at Stonehaven in 1794, John Duncan spent a lifetime collecting plant specimens from all across Scotland and the North of England, a collection including 75% of all British flowering plants when he donated it on his death to Aberdeen University. Unusually, unlike other amateur botanists of the period, John spent his life as a poor working weaver. In his seventies, he was saved from living on the Parish by a public subscription raised by a botanist friend to which Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin contributed. He died in his eighty first year. Visit Google Maps for Stonehaven Year of Stories Walking Route https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?... Image of John Duncan courtesy of https://www.electricscotland.com/hist...