Sir Daniel Morris KCMG FLS[1] (1844–1933) was a British administrator, horticulturist and botanist, who worked mainly in the Caribbean region.
[2][3] After public school at Cheltenham, he was educated at the Royal College of Science South Kensington and at Trinity College Dublin, where he took first class honours in natural science.
From 1877 to 1879 he was assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon, where he studied coffee leaf rust.
From 1886 to 1898 he was assistant director (under William Thiselton-Dyer)[3] of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
From 1898 to 1908 Morris was Imperial Commissioner, West Indian Agricultural Department.