George Richardson Proctor

George Richardson Proctor OD (1920–2015) was an American botanist and expert on Jamaican flora. He wrote widely on the topic, publishing Flora of the Cayman Islands, and collected over 55,000 specimens from 50 different islands in the Caribbean. He was considered one of the "four horsemen" of taxonomy in the West Indies and Caribbean. Thirty-one species were named in his honor,

Proctor moved to Jamaica in 1949 to work on a book about the island's ferns begun by William Ralph Maxon. He worked at the Institute of Jamaica from 1951 to 1980, working on the herbarium and rising to be head of the Natural History Division. From 1982 to 1983 he was herbarium supervisor at the National Botanic Garden in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and from 1983 to 1998 at the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources as director of the herbarium. and sentenced in February 2010 to four years in prison. Proctor was allegedly unhappy with the marriage. In October 2012 he was released due to his poor health, and traveled to Boston. Proctor died on October 12, 2015, in New York City at the age of 95.