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John Forbes Royle

Royle around 1851, redrawn from a daguerrotype

John Forbes Royle (10 May 1798 – 2 January 1858), British botanist and teacher of materia medica (pharmacology), was born in Kanpur (then Cawnpore) in India in 1798. He was in charge of the botanical garden at Saharanpur and played a role in the development of economic botany in India.


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