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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Royle    
First Name(s)  John Forbes    
Birth Year  1799    
Death Year  1858    
Entry  Son of Capt. William Henry Royle : born at Cawnpur, 1799 : educated at Edinburgh and Addiscombe, but became an Assistant Surgeon in Bengal, 1819 : M.D. : Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Saharanpur, 1823-31 : cultivated useful vegetable products : retired : Doctor of Medicine, Munich : wrote Illustrations of the Botany and Natural History of the Himalaya Mountains, 1839 : advocated the introduction of cinchona into India : Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at King's College, London, 1837-56 : (had charge of a museum, at the India House, of vegetable productions of India : was F.R.S., F.L.S., Fellow and Secretary of the Geological, Linnaean, Royal Asiatic, and Royal Horticultural Societies : wrote a manual on Materia Medica, 1847 : a book on the fibrous plants of India, and works on cotton and other products, and the Natural History of India : distinguished for his practical application of botanic science : a Commissioner of the great Exhibition of 1851, and in charge of the Indian Department : also at the Paris Exhibition, 1855 : died Jan. 2, 1858.     
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