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Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot
1837–1914
Best known for vivid books on coffee-planting and rural life, this Scottish writer drew on years of firsthand experience in Mysore, India, and later turned the same practical eye to farming in Scotland.
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About the author
Born in 1837, he became an early British coffee planter in Mysore, India, and later wrote about the work, risks, and everyday realities of plantation life there. His best-known books include Experiences of a Planter in the Jungles of Mysore and Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore.
He also wrote on agriculture in Scotland, bringing the same observational, practical style to farming questions at home. Sources consistently describe him as coming from Kelso in Roxburghshire, Scotland, and his writing reflects both a planter's lived experience and a farmer's interest in land use and rural change.
He died in 1914. Although he is remembered mainly for nonfiction rooted in his own experience, bibliographic records also note that he wrote fiction.