George Darby Haviland

George Darby Haviland lived from 1857 to 1901 and was a British surgeon and naturalist, born at Warbleton in Sussex, England. His career combined medical service with natural history work in Southeast Asia and beyond. He served as a medical officer in Sarawak and was Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching from 1891 to 1893, and he also held the post of Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore. In 1895 he returned to England and worked at the Kew Herbarium in London, and he later went to South Africa, where he died in Natal. He is a useful example of the nineteenth century colonial surgeon who also collected, curated and studied the natural world around his posting.