Born on 30 6 1856. Charles Warrand died in Bonee, West Africa in 10 1881 aged 25. Buried in Bonee, West Africa.
By May Houghton, his half-sister.
"Educated at Marlborough, where he rather specialised in botany. After school he went to Trinidad to a firm and lived there for several years, and while there he used to collect orchids and other plants, and send seeds and plants home. Then he came to the Canary Islands and lived with us until my father died; then he undertook trading along the West coast of Africa, and during the trading he joined an expedition into Africa searching for the sources of the Niger, Nile etc. When in the interior he got fever and was brought to the coast intending to return to Canary, but he died at a place called Bonee and was buried there. The sea has since covered this place, and therefore all trace of the grave is lost. My remembrance of him is one of the kindest and most affectionate of brothers: he had a beautiful tenor voice and was very musical: he was tall and handsome, he was over six feet, and he had great charm of manner"
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