William Roxburgh
1751–1815
Scottish botanist and surgeon. Medical officer with the Madras Medical Service, 1776–80. Superintendent, Samulcotta Botanic Garden, 1781–93. Chief botanist to the East India Company and superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, 1793–1813.
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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