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Leonard Hume Wray

1816–1901

Sugar-planter and horticultural writer. For sixteen years a sugar-planter in Jamaica, Bengal, and the Straits Settlements. Author of The practical sugar planter (London, 1848) and The Zulu-Zafir lanphee, or ""Sweet Reed"" (London, 1854–7).

Sources

Catalogue of the library of the British Museum (Natural History)

CDEL.

Bibliography

Catalogue of the library of the British Museum (Natural History): Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History). 5 vols. London: Trustees of the British Museum. 1903–15.

CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.

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