CHAMPION

John George . b. Edinburgh 5 May 1815; Ensign 95 foot 2 Aug. 1831, major 11 Nov. 1851 to death; served at Hong-kong 1847–50; brought a collection of dried plants to England 1850, most of his novelties were described in Hooker’s Journals ; placed last set of his plants in the Kew herbarium 1854, his name is commemorated in the genus Champion i a and by the splendid plant Rhodoleia Champion i. d. Scutari hospital 30 Nov. 1854 of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. G. Bentham’s Flora Hong kong ens is (1861) 8*–9*; Gardener’s Chronicle (1854) 819–20; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 93–5.