David Clouston

Dr David Clouston FRSE (18711948) was a Scottish agriculturalist, horticulturalist and author. He served as Agricultural Advisor to all of India from 1923 to 1929. His expertise lay especially in the subject of grasses.

Life

He was born on Orkney on 13 December 1871.

He studied Agriculture to postgraduate level at Edinburgh University.

In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers were James Drever, Sir William Wright Smith, Ernest Shearer and Sir Thomas Henry Holland.[1][2]

He died in St Ola on Orkney on 18 April 1948.

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