Daniel Morris

Sir Daniel Morris (1844–1933) was a British administrator, horticulturist and botanist, who worked mainly in the Caribbean region. He was knighted in 1903.

Biography After public school at Cheltenham, he was educated at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, and at Trinity College Dublin, where he took first class honours in natural science. From 1877 to 1879 he was assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon, where he studied coffee leaf rust. He married in 1879. From 1879 to 1886 he was Director of the Botanic Department in Jamaica; he collected botanical specimens in British Honduras in 1882. From 1886 to 1898 he was assistant director (under William Thiselton-Dyer)

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