Harry Keith

Henry George Keith (1899–1982), known as Harry Keith, was a British forester and plant collector.

Keith is credited with starting the process of large-scale conservation of the forests of North Borneo (now Sabah).

In 1984, a new species of Rafflesia endemic to Sabah, Rafflesia keithii, was named in his honour. Keith was the husband of author Agnes Newton Keith. The couple had two children: a son (Henry George Newton Keith) and a daughter (Jean).

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