David Arnot’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Pflanzensammler
Was Politician 
Zoologist 
Conchologist 
Botanist 
Horticulturist 
From South Africa 
Type Biology 
Science 
Politics 
Gender male
Birth 26 June 1821, Uitenhage, South Africa
Death 6 June 1894, Cape Town, South Africa
(aged 72 years)
Star sign Cancer
Family
Spouse: Anna Arnot 

David Arnot (* 26. Juni 1821 in Uitenhage; † 6. Juni 1894 in Kapstadt) war ein südafrikanischer Generalagent, Diamantenschürfer und Pflanzensammler.

Leben

Arnot war der Sohn von David Arnot senior und Kaatje van der Jeugd. Sein Vater, ein Schmied aus Cupar in der schottischen Region Fife, kam 1817 mit dem von Benjamin Moodie geführten Trek von britischen Siedlern in die Kapkolonie. Nach seinem Studium in Uitenhage und am South African College in Kapstadt in den Jahren 1837 bis 1838 ließ sich David Arnot im Jahr 1845 in Colesberg als Generalagent nieder, wo er zwischen 1856 und 1871 den Griqua-Führer Nikolaas Waterboer in einem Rechtsstreit mit dem Oranje-Freistaat um Ländereien vertrat. Über diesen Fall veröffentlichte er im Jahr 1875 gemeinsam mit Francis Henry Samuel Orpen das Buch The Land Question of Griqualand West: An Inquiry Into the Various Claims to Land in That Territory; Together With a Brief History of the Griqua Nation.

1859 sandte Arnot lebende Pflanzen an William Jackson Hooker von den Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew). Dazu zählten unter anderen elf Aloen-Arten, sechs Wolfsmilch-Arten, sechs Stapelien-Arten, drei Dickblatt-Arten, fünf Mesembryanthemum-Arten und vier Cotyledon-Arten.

Im Jahr 1875 wurde Arnot Mitglied der Linnean Society of London und der Geological Society of London. 1877 wurde er korrespondieres Mitglied bei der South African Philosophical Society.

Im Jahr 1845 heiratete Arnot Anne Grimmer. Aus dieser Ehe gingen zwölf Kinder hervor.

Dedikationsnamen

Nicholas Edward Brown benannte Stapelia arnotii, Joseph Dalton Hooker benannte Talinum arnottii und John Gilbert Baker benannte die Arten Brachystelma arnottii, Haemanthus arnottii und Hypoxis arnottii nach David Arnot. William Henry Benson beschrieb im Jahr 1864 die Schneckenart Microkerkus arnotti. Henry Baker Tristram ehrte Arnot im Jahr 1869 im Artepitheton des Arnotschmätzers (Myrmecocichla arnotti).

Literatur

  • Mary Gunn, L. E. W. Codd: Botanical Exploration Southern Africa: An Illustrated History of Early Botanical Literature on the Cape Flora A A Balkema Publishers, 1981, ISBN 978-0-869-61129-6, S. 82
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