Sir_Arthur_Rawdon,_2nd_Baronet
Sir Arthur Rawdon, 2nd Baronet (17 October 1662 – 17 October 1695[citation needed]) 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.[1][2]
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He played an active role in the Williamite War in Ireland. Following the Glorious Revolution he was involved in the raising of the Army of the North, a Protestant force opposed to the Jacobite Irish Army.