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'''Sir Henry Collett''' (6 March 1836 – 21 December 1901) was an [[England|English]] soldier and [[botanist]]. He served as an army officer in the [[East India Company]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
Collett was born in [[Thetford]], [[Norfolk]], the fourth son of Rev. W. Collett and his second wife Ellen Clarke née Bidwell, He studied at [[Tonbridge School]] and at [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]]. He joined the [[Bengal Army]] on 8 June 1855, rising through the ranks to become a [[Lieutenant colonel]] in 1879. In the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]] (1878–80) he acted as [[Quartermaster general]] on the staff of [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts]]. He was promoted colonel in 1884, made [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] in 1891, and from 1892 to 1893 he commanded the [[Peshawar]] district with the rank of [[Major-general]]. He retired from the army in 1893.{{sfn|Vibart|1912}}<br />
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Collett was a keen botanist, an interest that he developed when posted in 1878 in the [[Kurram Valley]]. He studied and collected plants in Afghanistan, Algeria, Burma, the Canaries, Corsica, India, Java, and Spain. He was made a fellow of the [[Linnean Society of London]] in 1879. He was one of the founding members of the Simla Naturalists' Society. At his death he was working on a book on the flora of [[Shimla|Simla]], which was published posthumously as ''Flora Simlensis'' (1902).{{sfn|Vibart|1912}}<br />
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His [[herbarium]] collection was presented to the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] in London, England after his death.{{sfn|Vibart|1912}} The plant species ''[[Iris subg. Nepalensis#Iris collettii|Iris collettii]]'' was named after him in 1909.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pacific Rim Native Plant Nursery|date=12 May 2008|url=http://www.hillkeep.ca/bulbs%20iris.htm|publisher=hillkeep.ca|accessdate=13 August 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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== References ==<br />
*{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Collett, Henry |first=Henry Meredith |last=Vibart}}<br />
*{{cite ODNB|id=32497|title= Collett, Sir Henry (1836-1901)|author= H. M. Vibart rev. James Lunt}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://archive.org/details/FloraSimlensis Flora Simlensis]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/NotesOnSomePlantsOfTheHimalaya Collett, Henry (1895) Notes on some plants of the Himalaya. Army & Navy Co-operative Society Limited, London.]<br />
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