John Forbes Royle

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British botanist (1799-1858)

ScientistsLived 1799 to 1858 · aged 59

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John Forbes Royle, British botanist and teacher of materia medica (pharmacology), was born in Kanpur in India in 1798. He was in charge of the botanical garden at Saharanpur and played a role in the development of economic botany in India.

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Royle around 1851, redrawn from a daguerreotype

John Forbes Royle (lithograph by G H Ford)

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Fellow of the Royal Society

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