Henry Fletcher Hance

Henry Fletcher Hance (4 August 1827 – 22 June 1886) was a British diplomat who devoted his spare time to the study of Chinese plants.

In May 1852 in Exeter he married his first wife Anne Edith Baylis, who accompanied him on his return to Hong Kong.

[1] In 1873, Hance published a supplement to George Bentham's 1861 Flora Hongkongensis [es].

[1] He graduated as Philosophiae Doctor from the University of Giessen on 24 November 1849, during which time he was in China.

[5] In 1857 Berthold Carl Seemann named the genus Hancea (family Euphorbiaceae) in his honour.