Richard Henry Yapp (1871–1929)

British botanist who joined the Cambridge University Skeat expedition (1899-1900) to the Siamese-Malay States and later became Curator of the Cambridge University Herbarium (1900-1903). Yapp was appointed Professor of Botany at Aberystwyth University (1904-1914), subsequently at Queen's University, Belfast (1914-1919), then latterly at Birmingham University (1919-1929).