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Burkill was born to Isaac Henry Burkill and Ethel Maud Morrison on 8 December 1914 in the Director's House on the grounds of the gardens of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. [1] When Burkill was four, he was put in the care of a family from Yorkshire, and attended a preparatory school when he was eight.
The offices of former directors, namely Holttum Hall (after Eric Holttum, Director of the Gardens from 1925 to 1949) and Ridley Hall (after Henry Nicholas Ridley, first director of Gardens from 1888 to 1911) were preserved and now known as the Singapore Botanic Gardens' Heritage Museum and Ridley Hall (a function space).
Having received botanical training, Holttum was given the role of assistant director at the Singapore Botanical Gardens in 1922, with the guidance of Isaac Henry Burkill. [3] In Singapore, he performed some exhaustive studies, and was promoted to director in 1925, [ 3 ] following the retirement of Burkill. [ 6 ]
The building in 2013. Holttum Hall is a historic building in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.Previously the office and laboratory of Richard Eric Holttum, the director of the gardens, it currently houses the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Museum, which is also known as the SBG Heritage Museum.
Constructed in 1868 to house the directors of the gardens, the building features broad verandahs and high ceilings to allow for more natural light and ventilation, and was originally known as the Director's House on the grounds of the Gardens, later renamed to Burkill Hall after Isaac Burkill and Humphrey Burkill.
Reaching Singapore, he was the first scientific director in charge of the botanical gardens and in charge of introducing new plants of economical value. [7] Ridley established the methods for harvesting latex from Pará rubber plants which had been introduced ten years earlier by Sir Hugh Low [ 8 ] apart from starting a zoological section in ...
Singapore’s Peddling Pictures, the production company behind award-winning docu-series “Riot Island,” is presenting its new six-part fiction series “Isle of Ease” at Mipcom. Backed by ...
Taylor has been director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens since September 2011. He was previously curator of the Kew Gardens in London . The standard author abbreviation N.P.Taylor is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name .