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Professor#In academia, Professor David John Mabberley , (born May 1948) is a British-born Botany, botanist, educator and writer. Among his varied scientific interests is the alpha taxonomy, taxonomy of tropical plants, especially trees of the families Labiatae, Meliaceae and Rutaceae. He is perhaps best known for his plant dictionary ''The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the vascular plants''. The third edition was published in 2008 as '':ca:Mabberley's Plant-book, Mabberley's Plant-book'', for which he was awarded the Adolf Engler, Engler Medal in Silver in 2009. As of June 2017 '':ca:Mabberley's Plant-book, Mabberley's Plant-book'' is in its fourth edition. Biography Born in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, Mabberley won a scholarship to Rendcomb College, Cirencester, then an open scholarship to St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1970 and M.A. in 1974. Although he intended to work for a doctorate under the cytologist C. D. Darlington he was insp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Tetbury is a town and civil parish inside the Cotswold district in England. It lies on the site of an ancient hill fort, on which an Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded, probably by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, increasing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. The population was 6,453 in the 2021 Census. History During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is an annual competition where participants must carry a sack of wool up and down a steep hill (''Gumstool Hill''). The Tetbury Woolsack Races take place on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Notable buildings in the town include the Church House, the Market House and the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalene and much of the rest of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
