Robert Fortune
1813–80
Traveller and botanist. Collected plants in China for the Horticultural Society, 1842–6. Curator of the Chelsea botanic garden, 1846–8. Collected plants and seeds of the tea-shrub in China for the East India Company from 1848 and wrote several books on the subject.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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