Professor of Botany, Cambridge University
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The chair of the Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge
was founded by the university in 1724. In 2009 the chair was renamed the Regius Professor
of Botany.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
was founded by the university in 1724. In 2009 the chair was renamed the Regius Professor
Regius Professor
Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships at the ancient universities of the United Kingdom and Ireland - namely Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dublin. Each of the chairs was created by a monarch, and each appointment, save those at Dublin, is approved by the...
of Botany.
Professors of Botany
- Richard BradleyRichard Bradley (botanist)Richard Bradley was an English botanist. His early life is obscure and even his date of birth is uncertain, possibly it was 1688....
(1724) - John MartynJohn Martyn (botanist)John Martyn or Joannis Martyn was an English botanist.Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum , and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil...
(1733) - Thomas MartynThomas MartynThomas Martyn was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. He is sometimes confused with the conchologist and entomologist of the same name....
(1762) - John Stevens HenslowJohn Stevens HenslowJohn Stevens Henslow was an English clergyman, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to his pupil Charles Darwin.- Early life :...
(1825) - Charles Cardale Babington (1861)
- Harry Marshall WardHarry Marshall WardHarry Marshall Ward was a British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist.Born in Hereford, Ward was educated at Lincoln Cathedral school. from c. 1864. He went on to scientific studies at the South Kensington Science and Art Department under Thomas Henry Huxley in 1874...
(1895) - Albert Charles SewardAlbert Charles SewardAlbert Charles Seward FRS was a British botanist and geologist.-Life:His first education was at Lancaster Grammar School and then on to St. John's College at Cambridge following his parents' wish to dedicate his life to the Church...
(1906) - Frederick Tom BrooksFrederick Tom BrooksFrederick Tom Brooks was an English botanist, and was Professor of Botany, Cambridge University.He was born in Somerset and attended Sexey's School, Somerset from 1895-1898. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1902 and became Professor of Botany there in 1936...
(1936) - George Edward BriggsGeorge Edward BriggsGeorge Edward Briggs was a British botanist.He was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Walker Thomas and Susan Briggs....
(1948) - Harry GodwinHarry GodwinSir Harry Godwin FRS, was a prominent English botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge.-Early life:...
(1960) - Percy Wragg BrianPercy Wragg BrianPercy Wragg Brian was a British botanist.He was born in Hall Green, Birmingham to Percy Brian, a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide. He graduated from Kings College, Cambridge in 1931...
(1968) - Richard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert West FRS is a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist.He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I...
(1977) - Thomas ap ReesThomas ap ReesThomas ap Rees was a botanist. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge between 1991 and 1996 when he has killed in a road accident whilst cycling home...
(1991) - Roger Allen LeighRoger Allen LeighRoger Allen Leigh used to be a Professor of Botany, Cambridge University, he was a fellow of Girton College. He is currently head of school of Agriculture, Food & Wine at the University of Adelaide.-External links:*...
(1998) - Sir David BaulcombeDavid Charles BaulcombeSir David Charles Baulcombe, FRS is a British plant scientist and geneticist. He is currently Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge.- Biography :...
(2007)