Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews (2 February 1870 – 13 June 1951) was an English

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and collector who was born in

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in 1870 and died in

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in 1951. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and

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and graduated with second-class honours in humanities and classics and in 1892 . He was then employed as a teacher from 1893 to 1896 and as a resident tutor at Battersea Teachers Training College. Most of his adult working life was spent in

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where he arrived in 1901 and was employed as the principal of

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and later as the Director of Education and then as the Pro-Chancellor of the

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. He returned to England sometime between 1929 and 1930. During his time in Australia he collected and described several species of plant including some ''

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''s. '' Eucalypts'' and ''

Pultenaea ''Pultenaea'' is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves and orange or yellow flowers similar to others in the family but with the ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Cecil Rollo Payton 20th-century Australian botanists Australian taxonomists 1870 births 1951 deaths 20th-century British botanists