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About Arthur Rawdon
Sir Arthur Rawdon, 2nd Baronet was an Irish landowner. He built a large part of Moira, County Down in the seventeenth century. Known as "Father of Irish Gardening" and "The Cock of the North", he was a keen botanist, and brought over 400 different species of plant to Moira from Jamaica.
Everything about Arthur Rawdon →- Occupation
- botanist, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland
- Born
- October 17, 1662
- Died
- October 17, 1695