English botanist who trained at Cambridge University. Alfred Rendle was employed as Assistant in the Department of Botany at BM (1888-), becoming Keeper (1906-1930). Together with W. Fawcett, a former employee at BM who was now Director of the botany department in Jamaica, he wrote the Flora of Jamaica, published in parts (1910-1936). He was responsible for many projects during his keepership, including editing the biographical research of J. Britten and G.S. Boulger on British and Irish Botanists. Rendle was elected President of the Linnean Society (1923-1927). A number of species are named in his honour, including the Jamaican Tabernaemontana rendlei Stearn with its holotype at BM.