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Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick (1812-1882)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
George Henry Kendrick
Last name
Thwaites
Initials
G.H.K.
Life Dates
1812 - 1882
Collecting Dates
1838 - 1871
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Bryophytes Fungi Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), PDA (main), A, AWH, B, BHU, BR, BRIST, BRISTM, BSL, CAL, CFN (currently BRIST), CGE, CN, DBN, DD, DPU (currently NY), E, FI, FR, G, G-DC, GH, GLR, GOET, GZU, H, LE, LIV, MH, MICH, MO, MPU, MW, NA, NMW, NY, OXF, P, PC, PH, RO, TTN, US, W, WAR (currently WARMS), WARMS, WBCH, WU
Countries
Europe: United KingdomAustralasia: AustraliaIndian region: Sri LankaPacific region: Tonga
Associate(s)
Champion, John George (1815-1854) (co-collector)
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) (correspondent)
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866) (co-collector)
Biography
English botanist and entomologist from Bristol, who was an avid collector of cryptogams and became Secretary of the Botanical Society of London (1839). He was appointed Superintendent of the Peradeniya Botanic Gardens in Sri Lanka (1849), becoming the Director of the gardens (1857-1880). Thwaites founded what is now the Hakgala Botanical Garden as a site for quinine production from Cinchona, which he was responsible for introducing to Sri Lanka. He retired from his directorship, to be succeeded by Henry Trimen, and shortly afterwards died at Kandy. His original British herbarium was deposited at Clifton College in Bristol (CFN) but later transferred to BRIST; material at BRIST was destroyed during the Second World War. Original material from Sri Lanka and the Pacific is mainly at PDA and K, but some original cryptogamic specimens and perhaps some British material were transferred from K to BM under the terms of the Morton Agreement after 1961.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 644; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 104; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 64; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 258; Nelson, E.C., Watsonia 24 (2003): 498; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1021;

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
George Henry Kendrick
Last name
Thwaites
Initials
G.H.K.
Life Dates
1812 - 1882
Collecting Dates
1838 - 1871
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Bryophytes Fungi Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), PDA (main), A, AWH, B, BHU, BR, BRIST, BRISTM, BSL, CAL, CFN (currently BRIST), CGE, CN, DBN, DD, DPU (currently NY), E, FI, FR, G, G-DC, GH, GLR, GOET, GZU, H, LE, LIV, MH, MICH, MO, MPU, MW, NA, NMW, NY, OXF, P, PC, PH, RO, TTN, US, W, WAR (currently WARMS), WARMS, WBCH, WU
Countries
Europe: United KingdomAustralasia: AustraliaIndian region: Sri LankaPacific region: Tonga
Associate(s)
Champion, John George (1815-1854) (co-collector)
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) (correspondent)
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866) (co-collector)
Biography
English botanist and entomologist from Bristol, who was an avid collector of cryptogams and became Secretary of the Botanical Society of London (1839). He was appointed Superintendent of the Peradeniya Botanic Gardens in Sri Lanka (1849), becoming the Director of the gardens (1857-1880). Thwaites founded what is now the Hakgala Botanical Garden as a site for quinine production from Cinchona, which he was responsible for introducing to Sri Lanka. He retired from his directorship, to be succeeded by Henry Trimen, and shortly afterwards died at Kandy. His original British herbarium was deposited at Clifton College in Bristol (CFN) but later transferred to BRIST; material at BRIST was destroyed during the Second World War. Original material from Sri Lanka and the Pacific is mainly at PDA and K, but some original cryptogamic specimens and perhaps some British material were transferred from K to BM under the terms of the Morton Agreement after 1961.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 644; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 104; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 64; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 258; Nelson, E.C., Watsonia 24 (2003): 498; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1021;
Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick (1812-1882)
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