Roland Edgar Cooper FRSE FRSGS (16 June 1890 – 31 January 1962) was a British botanist and Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1936 to 1950.
[3] Her husband, William Wright Smith, later became Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, creating Roland's link to his future role.
[5] In 1907 he travelled to India with his uncle to study and collect samples in Sikkim, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan until 1910.
[7] Staying mentally attached to the Indian subcontinent, he took on the role of Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Maymyo in the Shan Hills of Burma in 1921.
His proposers included his uncle, by this time Sir William Wright Smith, Thomas Rowatt and Ernest Shearer.