Arthur Henfrey (botanist)

Arthur Henfrey was an English surgeon and botanist, born of English parents at Aberdeen on 1 November 1819 and dead at Turnham Green on 7 September 1859, aged 39. He studied medicine and surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843, but poor health made him give up his medical career. In 1847 he lectured on plants at the medical school of St George's Hospital, and in 1853 he succeeded Edward Forbes in the botanical chair at King's College London. He became an associate of the Linnean Society in 1843, a fellow the next year, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1852. His published works include textbooks on structural and physiological botany and translations of German studies of the plant cell.