Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston (born in

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on 4 September 1902; died in

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on 17 March 1958) was an English botanist. His father was a vicar and amateur naturalist who first got him interested in the field. A.H.G. Alston later received his B.A. from the

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. He went on to work at the

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and the colonial Department of Agriculture in

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. He joined the

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in 1927. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Alston when citing a

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1902 births 1958 deaths Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Botanists with author abbreviations Fellows of the Linnean Society of London People from East Lindsey District 20th-century British botanists People educated at Marlborough College British people in British Ceylon {{UK-botanist-stub