Francis Wall Oliver
FRS (10 May 1864 – 14 September 1951) was an English botanist.
He was educated at
Bootham School
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.
The school ...
, York.
He was
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of Botany at
University College London
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1890–1925 where he supervised the PhD of
Margaret Jane Benson
Margaret Jane Benson (20 October 1859 – 20 June 1936) was an English botanist specialising in paleobotany, and one of the first female members of the Linnean Society of London. Most of her career was spent as the head of the Department of Bo ...
, and then Professor of Botany at the
University of Cairo
Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...
1929–1935. He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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in 1905.
He was awarded the
Linnean Medal
The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...
in 1925.
He edited a book titled ''Makers of British Botany'' which contained biographies of British botanists
Robert Morison
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Biography
Born in Aberdeen, Morison was an outstanding ...
,
John Ray
John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after ...
,
Nehemiah Grew
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Biography
Grew was the only son of Obadiah Grew (1607–1688), Nonconformist divine and vicar of St Micha ...
,
Stephen Hales
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,
John Hill John Hill may refer to:
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,
Robert Brown,
William Hooker,
John Stevens Henslow
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Early life
Henslow was born at Rochester, Kent, the son of a solici ...
,
John Lindley
John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.
Early years
Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley w ...
,
William Griffith,
Arthur Henfrey Arthur Henfrey may refer to:
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* Arthur Henfrey (botanist)
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Life
Henfrey was born of Engl ...
,
William Henry Harvey
William Henry Harvey, FRS FLS (5 February 1811 – 15 May 1866) was an Irish botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae.
Biography
Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father ...
,
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889) was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology.
Life
Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at R ...
,
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, Fellow of the Royal Society (1 August 1817 – 23 December 1901) was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. He was a fellow of the Royal Society.
Life
He ...
,
William Crawford Williamson
William Crawford Williamson (24 November 1816 – 23 June 1895) was an English Naturalist and Palaeobotanist.
Early life
Williamson was born at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the son of John Williamson, and Elizabeth Crawford. His father, a ...
,
Harry Marshall Ward
Harry Marshall Ward (21 March 1854 – 26 August 1906), FRS, , was a British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist.
Born in Hereford, the eldest child of Francis and Mary Marshall Ward, Harry Ward was educated at Lincoln Cathedral s ...
and
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of t ...
.
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People educated at Bootham School
Fellows of the Royal Society
English botanists
Academics of University College London
1864 births
1951 deaths
Cairo University faculty
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