Ronald Campbell Gunn ( 1808 - 1881 )

Birth: Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony [now in South Africa], Africa (04 April 1808) Death: Newstead House, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania (14 March 1881) Profession: Colonial administrator Research area: Natural history; botany; zoology Education: Educated in Scotland Career: Royal Engineers at Barbados; Superintendent of convicts for North Tasmania at Launceston (1830); police magistrate at Circular Head (1836); assistant police magistrate at Hobart Town (1838); private secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania Sir John Franklin and clerk of the executive and legislative councils (1839); estate manager to William Effingham Lawrence (1841); travelled widely in Tasmania and made zoological collections for the British Museum; corresponded with botanists Sir William Jackson Hooker FRS, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker PRS and John Lindley FRS and collected botanical specimens for them in Tasmania Membership: Fellow Election Date: 01/06/1854.