William Ormston Backhouse (1885 – 1962) 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. William Ormston Backhouse worked for a period of fíve years at the Cambridge Plant Breeding Station and the John Innes Institute, but left Britain to become a geneticist for the Argentine Government. He established a number of wheat-breeding stations in Argentina, then moved to Patagonia, where he reared pigs, grew apples and other fruits and started intensive honey production. He returned to England and bred red-trumpet daffodils at Sutton Court. References 1885 births 1962 deaths People educated at Bradfield College People from Darlington People from County Durham English agronomists English geneticists English botanists