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David Bramwell (botanist)
David Bramwell Order of the British Empire, MBE (25 November 1942 – 20 January 2022) was an English botanist and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, director of the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Gran Canaria (1974–2012), and active in the conservation of insular floras. Education Bramwell was born in Ormskirk, near Liverpool, on 25 November 1942. He attended Maghull High School, Old Hall Grammar School, Maghull, and studied botany at the University of Liverpool (BSc 1962–1966, MSc 1967), with postgraduate study at the University of Seville (1968–1969). He completed his doctoral thesis on a "Revision of the genus Echium in Macaronesia" at the University of Reading (1969–1971). Career In 1971, he joined the staff at the Plant Sciences Department, University of Reading, under Vernon Heywood, Professor Vernon Heywood, teaching plant taxonomy on the MSc course Pure and Applied Plant Taxonomy, and was curator of the Herbarium. He was assistant editor of the Botanica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bramwell
David Bramwell is a British writer, musician, performer and broadcaster. For BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, Radio 4, he has made programmes on diverse subjects, including Ivor Cutler, clapping, time travel, and the murmurations of starlings. He is the founder and host of Brighton's spoken word night, the Catalyst Club. Bramwell is also a singer-songwriter with his band Oddfellow's Casino. Describing Bramwell's writing, Matthew Clayton declares that 'The tradition that he taps into is one best exemplified by the work of Ken Campbell — or from another perspective he is one part Eric Morecambe, Eric Morecombe, one part Alan Moore.’ Bramwell was born in Scunthorpe, moving to Doncaster at the age of six, where he lived until he was eighteen. After 'four long years studying geography'David Bramwell, ''The Haunted Moustache'', Nightfinch Books, 2016, p.25 at Coventry Polytechnic, he moved to Brighton in the early 1990s. He describes the impact of Brighton in his book, ''The Haunted M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
