Henry Nicholas Ridley
1855–1956
Economic botanist. BA, natural science, Oxford (Exeter College), 1878. Employed in the botanical department, British Museum, 1880. Participated in an expedition to Brazil sponsored by the Royal Society of London, 1887. Director, botanical gardens, Singapore, 1888. Travelled in the Malay Peninsula as well as Borneo, Burma, India, Egypt, Java, and Jamaica. Helped to establish the rubber plantation industry in Malaya. Founder and editor, Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States, 1901. FRS 1907.
Sources
Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States n.s. 1 (1901): i
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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