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Henry Brougham GuppyFRS FRSE FLS (23 December 1854 – 23 April 1926) was a British surgeon, geologist, botanist and photographer. He was awarded theLinnean Medal in 1917.[1]
He was born inFalmouth on the English coast the son of Dr. Thomas Stokes Guppy (1812–1893) a local physician, and his wife Charlott Ann Brougham (1826–1894). He was educated atSherborne, and studied Medicine at Queen's College inBirmingham thenEdinburgh University where he graduated MB CM.[2] He worked as a surgeon in theRoyal Navy from 1876 to 1885.[3] He served on boardHMS Hornet in theSouth China Seas andHMS Lark (a survey ship) in the western Pacific[4] (especially theSolomon Islands[5]). He also spent a long time on shore in 1878 inKorea.
In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers wereSir William Turner,Hugh Robert Mill andAlexander Buchan. He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of London in 1918.[6]
In 1896 he returned to the Pacific to begin extensive geological and botanical research. This included investigations of thecoral reefs at theKeeling Islands; and work inJava, Hawaii andFiji.[7] This work took him until 1899. He returned to Britain for several years to analyse his findings and write on them, then from 1906 to 1914 he made studies in theWest Indies and theAzores. TheFirst World War curtailed travel possibilities and he resumed with further Pacific adventures in 1919.
He died en route fromTahiti to Britain on board the SSEl Kantara whilst moored atMartinique.[8]
He married twice: firstly in 1887 to Mary Annie Jordan (b.1854) (whilst still in the Navy); secondly in 1900 to Letitia Warde ofYalding in Kent.
Henry Brougham Guppy is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of reptiles: a gecko,Lepidodactylus guppyi, which isendemic to the Solomon Islands; and a snake,Uropeltis broughami, which is endemic to southern India.[9] Specimens collected by Guppy are cared for at theNational Herbarium of Victoria (MEL),Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.[10]
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