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William Griffith was born in Ham Common, near Petersham, Surrey on 4 March 1810 and died of malaria in Malacca on 9 February 1845. He was the youngest son of Thomas Griffith, a London merchant, and a greatgrandson of Jeremiah Meyer, historical painter to George II and a founder of the Royal Academy.
Apr 22, 2020 · William Griffith's Afghan itineraries. Born in 1810, William Griffith trained as a surgeon while simultaneously cultivating an interest in natural history, taking botanical classes with John Lindley at the then newly established University of London. In 1832, he travelled to India as an EIC Assistant-Surgeon.
- Lachlan Fleetwood
- 2021
William Griffith was a London botanist. He was the son of a London merchant, born on March 4, 1810, at Ham Common. Having finished school he began to prepare for the medical profession and was apprenticed to a surgeon in the West end of London. About 1829 he commenced attendance at the classes in the newly established University College.
Griffith, William. (b. Ham Common, Surrey, England, 4 March 1810; d Malacca, India, 9 February 1845) botany. Griffith, youngest son of Thomas Griffith, a London merchant, was the great-grandson of Jeremiah Meyer, historical painter to George II and a founder of the Royal Academy. He was educated for the medical profession and was apprenticed to ...
Apr 22, 2020 · In 1839, at the outset of the First Anglo-Afghan War, East India Company surgeon and naturalist William Griffith (1810–1845) set out for Afghanistan with the so-called ‘Army of the Indus’. That science, empire, and war were inextricably linked in the ...
- Lachlan Fleetwood
- 2021
Apr 22, 2020 · In 1839, at the outset of the First Anglo-Afghan War, East India Company surgeon and naturalist William Griffith (1810–1845) set out for Afghanistan with the so-called ‘Army of the Indus’.
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William Griffith (4 March 1810 – 9 February 1845 [1]) was a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist. Griffith's botanical publications are from India and Burma . After a brief stay in Madras , he was assigned as a Civil Surgeon to Tenasserim , Burma, where he studied local plants and made collecting trips to the Barak River valley in Assam.
