Dr Albert George Long

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LLD (1915–1999) was a British educator and palaeobotanist. He was an expert on the Lower Carboniferous period. He was creator of the Cupule-Carpel Theory.

Life

He was born in Inskip, Lancashire. on 28 January 1915. the son of Rev Albert James Long (died 1940), a Baptist minister, and his wife, Isabel Amblet (died 1960). He attended school in Todmorden. As a schoolboy he was shot in the left foot and relied on a medical boot to walk, walking with a permanent limp. He then studied science at Manchester University under Professor William Henry Lang. He then underwent training as a teacher and, initially, took a post at

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in Sussex. In 1945, he began teaching science at

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in the Scottish Borders. In 1962, he was elected a fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, John Walton, Alexander Mackie and

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. Unusually, he won the society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the period 1958 to 1960, before being made a fellow. In 1966, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc) from his ''alma mater'' and, in 1967, a second honorary doctorate (LLD) from Glasgow University. In 1966, he left Duns to become deputy curator of the

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. He died at home in Tweedmouth on 13 March 1999.

Publications

*''Hitherto'' (1996) (autobiography)

Family

He married Gladys Hunt in 1942. They had two children, Jean and David.

References

1915 births 1999 deaths Scientists from Lancashire Alumni of the University of Manchester British palaeontologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People from the Borough of Fylde Schoolteachers from Lancashire {{UK-scientist-stub