Robert Braithwaite (1824–1917)

Physician and bryologist. MD, St Andrews, 1865. General practitioner at Clapham until his retirement in 1899. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1863; vice-president, 1889–91. Member of the Quekett Microscopical Club, 1865; president, 1872–3. Wrote a monograph on the Sphagnaceae of Europe and North America (1880) and British moss-flora (1880–1905). His herbarium was deposited at the British Museum.