Thomas Dancer
Thomas Dancer was a British physician and colonial botanist.Life
Dancer graduated M.D. at Edinburgh University in 1771. He came to Jamaica in 1773, and was curator of its botanic garden from 1787 to 1804.
In touch with Sir Joseph Banks, Dancer received an award in 1791 to encourage his work on plants of economic value. When the plant collection from the Second Breadfruit Voyage of William Bligh came to Jamaica in 1793, Dancer and Arthur Broughton added specimens for Banks to it, and Dancer provided documentati0on.
Dancer died in Kingston, Jamaica on 1 August 1811.Works
