Richard Kenneth "Dick" Brummitt (22 May 1937 – 18 September 2013) was a British botanist.
In 1963 he was employed by the Ministry of Overseas Development working in the African Section at the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
He joined the staff of Kew in 1968 working on Leguminosae for Flora Zambesiaca.
[4] He was also a plant collector in southern Europe, Russia, East Africa, and Australia.
Brummitt was married to Hilary Jane Crawford (1945–1988) in 1968 and had three children, Patrick, Neil and Lindsay.