Richard Frank Rand

Richard Frank Rand (1858? – January 1937) was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He won the Wightman prize in 1880, and served as demonstrator of anatomy.

He acted as house surgeon at the Oldham Infirmary, and after taking his FRCS went to the West Indies where he practised for some years in Jamaica. From 1910 to 1935 he was again at Salisbury, but took part in the war of 1914–18 in the campaigns in South-West Africa and in East Africa. Retiring in 1935 he settled at Brightlingsea, Essex, where he died on 3 January 1937. Rand was interested in botany and many of his discoveries in South African flora are to be found at Kew and there bear his name. His gifts to the British Museum herbarium were described in the ''Journal of Botany''. Provided by Wikipedia