Reginald Edward Vaughan

Reginald Edward Vaughan OBE FRIC (27 October 1895 – 29 April 1987) was a British botanist who lived and worked in Mauritius from 1923.

[5][6] He went to Imperial College where he was awarded a second class degree in chemistry in 1920.

[4][10] His interest in botany developed and from 1934 he collaborated with Paul Octave Wiehe on botanical exploration and conservative, seeing the creation of 16 nature reserves between 1951 and 1974, and in 1959 the creation of the Mauritius Herbarium.

[11][12] The herbarium collection moved from Pamplemousses to Réduit, within the Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute (MSIRI) which he had created, with Wiehe, in 1946.

He continued to work on the flora and helped initiate the Flore des Mascareignes project.

During World War II from 1943 he worked as the chief censor for the Bureau of Information.

[4] He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society on 8 December 1932,[3][14] obtained his Ph.D. in 1934 from the University of London[15] and later a D.Sc.

The RE Vaughan Building, MSIRI Compound, Reduit, Mauritius is named after him.