Backhouse (surname)

Backhouse (surname)

Backhouse is a surname, and may refer to:

*Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), English banker, J.P., and MP for Darlington
*Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), British would-be oriental scholar and literary forger
*James Backhouse (1794–1869), English botanist and Quaker missionary
*James Backhouse (iv), botanist, archaeologist, and geologist
*Jonathan Backhouse (1849–1918), British baronet and banker
*Robert Backhouse (fl. early 20th century), British archer in the 1908 Olympics
*Roger Backhouse (1878–1939), British admiral of the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord 1939
*Tony Backhouse (born 1947), New Zealand musician
*William Ormston Backhouse (1885–1962), English agriculturalist and geneticist


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