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

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, botanist and collector who was born in

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in 1870 and died in Surrey in 1951. He was educated at

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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 Claremont Teachers College 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 ''

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''.

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