William Ormston Backhouse was an English agriculturalist and geneticist, and a member of the Backhouse family of County Durham, several generations of which were influential in the development of horticulture.
- Occupation
- geneticist, botanist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 20, 1885
- Died
- August 7, 1962
