Backhouse (surname)
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Backhouse is a surname, and may refer to:
- Edmund BackhouseEdmund Backhouse (MP)Edmund Backhouse , banker, J.P. on the County Durham and for the North Riding of Yorkshire benches. He was Member of Parliament for Darlington.-Family:...
(1824–1906), English banker, J.P., and MP for Darlington - Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd BaronetSir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd BaronetSir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet was a British oriental scholar and linguist whose work exerted a powerful influence on the Western view of the last decades of the Qing Dynasty. Since his death, however, it has been established that some of his sources were forged, though it is not clear...
(1873–1944), British would-be oriental scholar and literary forger - James BackhouseJames BackhouseJames Backhouse was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia.-Early life in England: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...
(1794–1869), English botanist and Quaker missionary - James Backhouse (iv) (1825-1890), botanist, archaeologist, and geologist
- Jonathan BackhouseJonathan BackhouseSir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Baronet was a British banker.Backhouse was a director of Backhouse's Bank the family bank in Darlington, County Durham, which merged with Barclays Bank, of which he became a director. He was created a baronet in 1901 .He served as a Justice of the Peace for...
(1849–1918), British baronet and banker - Robert BackhouseRobert BackhouseRobert Ormston Backhouse was a British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.He was born in Darlington, County Durham and died in Sutton St. Nicholas, Herefordshire....
(fl. early 20th century), British archer in the 1908 Olympics - Roger BackhouseRoger BackhouseAdmiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse GCB GCVO CMG was an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy and First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty from 1938 to 1939.-Family:...
(1878–1939), British admiral of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord 1939 - Tony BackhouseTony BackhouseTony Backhouse is a musician from New Zealand. He played in NZ bands such as The Crocodiles, and formed Australian a cappella groups, the Elevators, the Cafe of the Gate of Salvation, the Honeybees and the Heavenly Lights...
(born 1947), New Zealand musician - William Ormston BackhouseWilliam Ormston BackhouseWilliam Ormston Backhouse was an agriculturalist and geneticist, and a member of the Backhouse family of County Durham in England, several generations of which were influential in the development of horticulture....
(1885–1962), English agriculturalist and geneticist