Hugh Synge

Arthur Hugh Millington Synge was an English botanist of Anglo-Irish descent who championed endangered plants. Synge's father was journal editor and plant collector Patrick Millington Synge, and his father's cousin was Irish playwright and poet John M. Synge. Synge attended Rugby School, which he disliked, and then studied horticulture at Wye College from where he volunteered then joined the staff of Kew Gardens. In 2007, he was voted one of the 20 most influential British conservationists by BBC Wildlife readers. …