Harrison Chase

Harrison Chase was an eccentric millionaire whose primary hobby was botany. In pursuit of this, he assembled the world's largest collection of plants. He disdained humanity in favor of plant life, even composing music for them.

Biography
Chase was obsessive about his plant collection. He deemed himself the greatest collector of plant life and considered it the most helpless and beautiful thing in the world.

Chase learned from a government official, Richard Dunbar that a Krynoid pod had been found in Antarctica. He bribed Dunbar regularly for information. Chase sent his best man, Scorby and a scientist, Arnold Keeler to steal it.

The Krynoid came into his possession and it infected Keeler, who slowly changed into a Krynoid himself. Chase would not allow Keeler to get medical attention. He accelerated the process by feeding it and tried to study the plant's biology.

He put the Fourth Doctor in his compost machine, intending it to kill him. He was rescued by Sarah Jane Smith.

The creature grew bigger and more powerful. Chase began photographing it when it attacked him; he became psychically linked with it, and began to aid it in its plans to destroy animal life and become the dominant life form on Earth.

Chase captured Sarah Jane and put her in his compost machine; the Doctor freed her and wrestled with Chase. Chase fell into the shredder and was killed. (DW: The Seeds of Doom)