Frederick Robert Irvine FLS (30 April 1898, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, UK – 19 August 1962, Accra, Ghana) was a British botanist.
[1] For 16 years from 1924 to 1940 he taught botany and agriculture at Achimota College in Accra, Ghana.
Irvine collected plants in Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Sierre Leone,[3] and the French protectorate in Morocco, as well as in the UK.
Irvine's interest in food supply motivated him to collect zoological information.
[2] In 1959, while working under Quaker auspices for a year in the United States, he became seriously ill — after returning to the UK, he recovered but for the rest of his life his health was not good.