Wilhelm Schlich

Sir Wilhelm Philipp Daniel Schlich KCIE FRS FLS (28 February 1840 in Flonheim – 28 September 1925 in Oxford), also known as William Schlich, was a German-born forester who worked extensively in India for the British administration.

His early education was at Flonheim and then at Langgöns and other schools in Hesse where the family moved.

The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 forced him to move, and, on Heyer's recommendation, he entered the British Imperial Indian Forest Service.

[2] He retired on 1 January 1920 and lived on at Oxford where he died on 28 September 1925 from a bronchial infection.

Schlich was the author of the five-volume Manual of Forestry (1889–96) published serially in three editions.

[4] Other publications were The Outlook of the World's Timber Supply and Afforestation in Great Britain and Ireland.

Following the death of his first wife in 1878, he married Adèle Emilie Mathilde Marsily, member of an Antwerp family originally from Italy.