Robert Wight
1796–1872
Scottish botanist. Assistant surgeon to the East India Company in Madras, 1819–26; naturalist, 1826–8; garrison surgeon, 1828–31; surgeon, 1831–6; revenue department, 1836–53. Published numerous works on the botany of India. FRS 1855.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
ODNB.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
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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