| LC control no. | n 89644143 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Collett, H. (Henry), 1836-1901 |
| Variant(s) | Collett, Henry, Sir, 1836-1901 |
| Associated country | England India |
| Associated place | Simla (India : District) |
| Birth date | 1836-03-06 |
| Death date | 1901-12-21 |
| Place of birth | Thetford (England) |
| Place of death | South Kensington (London, England) |
| Field of activity | Botany |
| Affiliation | East India Company. Army. Bengal Army |
| Profession or occupation | Armies--Officers |
| Found in | Flora simlensis, 1921: t.p. (the late Col. Sir Henry Collett, K.C.B., F.L.S., Bengal Army) LC data base, 8-2-89 (hdg.: Collett, Henry, Sir, 1836-1901; usage: H. Collett) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 19 Apr., 2017 (Collett, Sir Henry, army officer in the East India Company and botanist; born on 6 March 1836 at Thetford, Norfolk; entered the Bengal army on 8 June 1855; promoted colonel in 1884; placed by his own wish on the unemployed list on 8 June 1893; a keen student of botany; made a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1879; In retirement he worked assiduously at the Royal Botanic Gardens herbarium, Kew, and at his death was preparing a handbook of the flora of Simla, which appeared posthumously; died, unmarried, at his residence, 21 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, London, on 21 December 1901) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32497> |
| Associated language | eng |
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