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Henry Noltie

Henry Noltie (born 1957) is a British botanist. He worked as a curator and taxonomist at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[1][2]

Henry Noltie
Henry Noltie examining a Cinchona tree in the Nilgiris, 2016
Henry Noltie examining a Cinchona tree in the Nilgiris, 2016
BornHenry John Noltie
OccupationBotanist
NationalityBritish
EducationPh.D. University of Edinburgh

Botany University of Oxford

Museum Studies University of Leicester

Life and career

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Education and work

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Noltie studied botany at the University of Oxford, and Museum Studies at Leicester. He joined RBGE in 1986. For 14 years he worked on the Flora of Bhutan[3] project, leading the team for its concluding years. He wrote two of the volumes of the Flora, relating to the monocots, for which he received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.[4][2]

Books

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In 1998, while working in the RBGE library, Noltie discovered thousands of botanical illustrations and a series of mounted herbarium specimens stamped with the words “Cleghorn Memorial Library”. Noltie's research lead him to the University of St Andrews library and to other parts of the RBGE archive where he began to piece together the life story of one of the 19th century's most significant botanists, Hugh Cleghorn.[5]

In 1999, Noltie wrote Indian Botanical Drawings 1793-1868 from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh published by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[6]

He subsequently wrote The Dapuri Drawings. Alexander Gibson and The Bombay Botanic Garden was published by The Antique Collectors' Club in association with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2002.[7]

In 2007, Noltie wrote Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo, a 3-volume monograph documenting the important collections of Indian botanical drawings in the Library of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Book 1, The Life and Work of Robert Wight, provided the definitive biography of Wight. Book 2, Botanical Drawings by Rungia & Govindoo: the Wight Collection. Book 3, Journeys in Search of Robert Wight, described the author's travels as he carried out the research that underpinned his work.[8]

His book Raffles' Ark Redrawn: Natural History Drawings from the Collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was published in 2009 by the British Library and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[9]

Noltie edited and wrote the introduction for Wild Flowers: A Sketchbook by the father-and-son team: Canon Raven (1885-1964) theologian, naturalist, and historian of science, and his son John (1914-1980) a classics don and passionate field botanist.[10]

In 2016, he published Indian Forester, Scottish Laird - The Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie[11] and The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings 1845 to 1860.[12]

In 2017, Noltie wrote about the links between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and India in his book Botanical Art from India.[13]

Noltie contributed to the book Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company[14] which accompanied the first UK exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials.[15][16][17]

The standard author abbreviation Noltie is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  2. ^ a b Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden. "Dr Henry Noltie, Research Associate". rbge-prod.azurewebsites.net. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  3. ^ Noltie, Henry J. (2000). Contributions to the flora of Bhutan : the monocotyledons (Ph.D. thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/11215.
  4. ^ "Henry Noltie". The Botanics Shop at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  5. ^ Bennett, Gabriella. "Forgotten art gives a glimpse into life's work of key botanist". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  6. ^ Noltie, Henry J. (1999). Indian Botanical Drawings 1793-1868: From the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-872291-23-9.
  7. ^ Noltie, Henry J. (2002). The Dapuri Drawings: Alexander Gibson and the Bombay Botanic Gardens. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 978-1-85149-422-4.
  8. ^ Noltie, Henry J. (2007). Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah & Govindoo. Royal Botanic Garden. ISBN 978-1-906129-02-6.
  9. ^ "Raffles' ark redrawn : natural history drawings from the collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles / H.J. Noltie". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  10. ^ Raven, Charles E.; Noltie, Henry J.; Raven, John (2012). Wild Flowers: A Sketchbook. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-906129-85-9.
  11. ^ Noltie, Henry J. (2016). Indian Forester, Scottish Laird: The Botanical Lives of Hugh Cleghorn of Stravithie. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-910877-10-4.
  12. ^ Noltie, Henry J. (2016). The Cleghorn Collection: South Indian Botanical Drawings 1845 to 1860. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-910877-11-1.
  13. ^ NOLTIE, H. J. (2017). Botanical Art from India: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Collection. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. ISBN 978-1-910877-22-7.
  14. ^ Dalrymple, William; Harris, Lucian; Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie; Losty, Jeremiah P.; Noltie, Henry J.; Roy, Malini; Sharma, Yuthika; Topsfield, Andrew (2019). Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company. Philip Wilson Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78130-097-8.
  15. ^ "Not just company ltd". India Today. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  16. ^ "Forgotten Masters". www.wallacecollection.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  17. ^ Jones, Jonathan (2019-12-03). "Forgotten Masters review – the natural history geniuses robbed by the British empire". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  18. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Noltie.
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