death_date death_place birth_place citizenship fields birth_date image article_title author_abbrev_bot name
16 october 1896 kandy , ceylon paddington , london , england british botany 26 october 1843 henry trimen.png henry trimen
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henry trimen

henry trimen -lrb- 26 october 1843 -- 16 october 1896 -rrb- he was born in paddington , london , england , the son of richard and marinne trimen and the younger brother of entomologist roland trimen .
he graduated from king 's college school , london and from king 's college medical school , edinburgh , but never practiced medicine .
he was the curator of the medical museum at king 's college , london , and lecturer on botany at st mary 's hospital medical school from 1867 to 1872 .
he joined the botanical department of the british museum in 1869 .
he was the director of the royal botanic gardens in ceylon -lrb- now the botanical garden of peradeniya , sri lanka -rrb- for sixteen years .
while there , he founded the museum of economic botany and also created subsidiary gardens at badulla and anuradhapura .
his major work at this time was `` the flora of ceylon '' , which was finished by others after his death .
he became fellow of the royal society in 1888 .
he was also a fellow of the linnean society of london .
he died in kandy in 1896 .
