William Fawcett (1851–1926) was a Britishbotanist and coauthor of theFlora of Jamaica.

He was born inArklow,County Wicklow, on 13 February 1851. He studied at theUniversity of London, obtaining a BSc in 1879. He became aFellow of the Linnean Society in 1881 and was an assistant in the Department of Botany in theBritish Museum from 1880 to 1886.^[1]

Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations inJamaica from 1887 to 1908. He then returned to Britain where he worked withAlfred Barton Rendle to produce the first few volumes of theFlora of Jamaica,^[2](illustrated byBeatrice O. Corfe andHelen Adelaide Wood).^[3]

He died atBlackheath, London on 14 August 1926.^[1]

• Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London 1910. at BHL[1]
• The banana, its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses, by William Fawcett. London, Duckworth 1921. at BHL[2]
• Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, by William Fawcett. Kingston, Botanical Dept., Vol.1[3], Vol.2[4], Vol.3[5], Vol.4[6], Vol.5 & 6[7]
• Economic plants. An index to economic products of the vegetable kingdom in Jamaica by William Fawcett. Jamaica, Govt. Print. Establishment 1891. at BHL[8]
• A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalised flowering plants of Jamaica,by William Fawcett. Kingston 1893. at Nybg[9]
• Works by William Fawcett atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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