Botanist (1887-1933).
Eric Frederic Drabble FLS (1877–1933) was a British botanist and leading authority on British Viola. Drabble was a lecturer in botany at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1901 to 1903. In 1903 he graduated with a DSc from the University of London. He was a lecturer from 1903 to 1905 at the Royal College of Science. He then moved to Liverpool University where he was a lecturer from 1905 to 1906; there Drabble and Leo Farmar were the two members of the economic botany section of the scientific staff of Liverpool University's Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics. Drabble was a l