Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847–1905) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries.

Here he showed skill as a draughtsman and was partly employed in making drawings of plants in the herbarium.

[2] Sir Joseph Hooker in describing the Scitamineous "Burbidgea nitida" names it: in recognition of Burbidge's eminent services to horticulture, whether as a collector in Borneo, or as author of Cultivated Plants, their Propagation and Improvement, a work which should be in every gardener's library.

[4]In 1880 Burbidge was appointed curator of the botanical gardens of Trinity College, Dublin, at Glasnevin.

[5] In 1889 Dublin University conferred on him the honorary degree of M.A., and in 1894 he became keeper of the college park as well as curator of the botanical gardens.