Henry Fletcher Hance

Henry Fletcher Hance (4 Aug 1827 – 22 June 1886) was a British diplomat who devoted his spare time to the study of Chinese plants.

Henry Fletcher Hance

Born in London, his first appointment was to Hong Kong in 1844. He later became vice-consul to Whampoa, consul to Canton, and finally consul to Xiamen, where he died in 1886. In 1873, Hance published a supplement to George Bentham's 1861 Flora Hongkongensis.

He graduated as Philosophiae Doctor from the University of Giessen on 24 November 1849, during which time he was in China.[1]

He found, named and described (in Latin) Iris speculatrix in 1875.[2][3] He was the taxonomic author of many plants.[4] In 1857 Berthold Carl Seemann named the genus Hancea (family Euphorbiaceae) in his honour.[5]

Hance is buried with his wife Charlotte in Hong Kong Cemetery.[6]

References
  1. Forbes, Francis Blackwell (January 1887). "Henry Fletcher Hance". The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. London: West, Newman & Co. 25 (289): 1–11.
  2. "Thema: Die Planzengattung Iris ... (Gelesen 5316 mal)". orchideenkultur.net. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  3. "Journal of Botany British and Foreign". biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  4. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Hance.
  5. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  6. Lim, Patricia (5 May 2011). "List of Burials ordered by Name". gwulo.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  7. IPNI.  Hance.
  • Fan, Fa-ti. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), pp.68-72.


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