Cyril Tenison White
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Australian botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cyril Tenison White was an Australian botanist. Early life White was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa . He attended school at South Brisbane State School, and was appointed pupil-assistant to the Colonial Botanist of Queensland in 1905, a position previously held by his grandfather on his mother's side, Frederick Manson Bailey. White also succeeded his uncle, John Frederick Bailey, in becoming Queensland's Government Botanist in 1917.
