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Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore.
Henry Nicholas Ridley (born Dec. 10, 1855, West Harling Hall, Norfolk, Eng.—died Oct. 24, 1956, Kew, Surrey) was an English botanist who was largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry in the Malay Peninsula.
The Gardens' first Director, Henry Nicholas Ridley, subsequently came to the Gardens in 1888 and worked tirelessly for the next 23 years to usher the Gardens into the twentieth century and its most productive period historically.
Apr 11, 2024 · Henry Nicholas Ridley (CMG) (FRS) (b. 10 December 1855, West Harling, Norfolk, England1–d. 24 October 1956, Kew, Surrey, England2) is the first director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1888 to 1912.3 Ridley is also known as the “father of the rubber industry”,4 and inventor of the “herring-bone” rubber-tapping technique to tap ...
May 19, 2019 · Sir Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855-1956) Bust of Sir Henry Nicholas Ridley in the National Museum, Kuala Lumpur Ridley became known as the “Father of the rubber industry” in 1897 after he carried out the first successful tapping of rubber trees in Malaya.
Ridley, Henry Nicholas (1855 - 1956) Born in Norfolk, England, on 10 December 1855; died in England, 24 October 1956. Ridley was the first Scientific Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens from 1888 to 1911.
When Henry Nicholas Ridley first arrived in Singapore in 1888, he became Singapore Botanic Gardens’ very first director. He established the Gardens’ credibility as a botany authority and added approximately 50,000 specimens to its herbarium and living collections.
Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore.
British botanist largely responsible for establishing the rubber industry on the Malay Peninsula. Henry Ridley was born in West Harling, Norfolk.
Henry Nicholas Ridley was born on 10 December 1855 at the period when plant physiology under the influence of Dutrochet, Leibig and Boussingault was beginning to affect the general approach to the study of plants, and when Hofmeister had conclusively shown the nature of the sexual process in phanerogams and had given an impetus to the study of ...
