Henry Wickham
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Henry Wickham was an Englishman who smuggled rubber seeds from Brazil to Southeast Asia, aiding the development of rubber plantations.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentMarc FinnellNo One Saw It Coming · The houseplant that changed the British Empire · 19:32 · 7 Jun
…One, the Wardian case, and an Englishman named Henry Wickham, who smuggled around 70,000 rubber seeds out of Brazil, got them to Kew Gardens in London, where they grew into seedlings in Kew's greenhouses, and then suddenly the British Empire had the foundations of its own rubber industry.…
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