Richard Henry Beddome
1830–1911
Army officer and botanist. Entered the Indian Army in 1848. Assistant conservator of forests, Madras, 1857; officiating conservator, 1860–82. Collected plants in India and Ceylon. Published Trees of Madras Presidency (1863). Fellow of Madras University, 1880.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994, DIB
Stebbing 1922–6, 2: 90.
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.
DIB: Dictionary of Indian biography. By C. E. Buckland. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1906.
Stebbing, E. P. 1922–6. The forests of India. 3 vols. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head.
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