Anthony L. Lamb M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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, Dip. Ag., D.T.A. is a British

United Kingdom

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 botanist, born in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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, and specialising in the flora

Flora

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 of Borneo

Borneo

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. Lamb was educated at Blundell's School

Blundell's School

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 in Tiverton and at St John's College

St John's College, Cambridge

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 at Cambridge

Cambridge

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. Lamb arrived in Sabah

Sabah

Sabah is one of 13 member states of Malaysia. It is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in the country after Sarawak, which it borders on its southwest. It also shares a border with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south...

, Borneo, in 1962 and started work on developing agricultural settlement schemes around Tawau

Tawau

Tawau is the administrative center of Tawau Division, Malaysia and the third largest town of Sabah after Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.-Geography:...

.

In 1981 he set up the Tenom

Tenom

Tenom is a town located in Interior Division of Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The town was called Fort Birch in the early colonial period. Its population was estimated to be around 46,200 in the year 2000....

 Orchid Centre as a Sabah State Government conservation

Conservation movement

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 project. He is coauthor of Rhododendrons of Sabah (1988) and Pitcher-Plants of Borneo

Pitcher-Plants of Borneo

Pitcher-Plants of Borneo is a monograph by Anthea Phillipps and Anthony Lamb on the tropical pitcher plants of Borneo. It was first published in 1996 by Natural History Publications , in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Malaysian Nature Society...

(1996), and a coordinator and a coauthor of the popular Orchids of Borneo series.

Lamb described his life's work in an interview with Nicki Grihault, published in the The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

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on 2 August, 2004.

Lamb is married to Anthea Phillipps

Anthea Phillipps

Anthea Phillipps B.Sc. is a British botanist. Phillipps was brought up in Sabah, Borneo as a child . She received a Botany degree from the University of Durham, England. She worked at the Sabah Museum before joining the Sabah Parks service from 1980 to 1987 as Park Ecologist, where she studied...

, and has two children, Serena and Alexander Lamb.