Dr. Winfield Dudgeon was a teacher at Ewing Christian College in Allahabad, India, and served as the founding president of the Indian Botanical Society (IBS). Together with Leslie Kenoyer (the second president of the IBS), Dudgeon explored the Mussoorie Hills and Tehri Garhwal. He published a checklist of plants in Landour and a paper on the ecology of the Upper Gangetic Plain in the early 1920s. His most important paper, entitled "The Ecology of Tehri Garhwal", was jointly published with Kenoyer in the Journal of the Indian Botanical Society (1925). Dudgeon established the first laboratory course in botany at Ewing College.

Sources:
B.M. Johri, 1994, Botany in India: history and progress
R.R. Stewart, 1982, "Missionaries and Clergymen as Botanists in India and Pakistan", Taxon, 31(1): 61.