John Ernest Holloway,
FRS (12 February 1881 – 6 September 1945) was a New Zealand Anglican priest, botanist and university lecturer.
Biography
He was born in
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / ...
, New Zealand, on 12 February 1881
and educated at
Nelson College
Nelson College is the oldest state secondary school in New Zealand. It is an all-boys school in the City of Nelson that teaches from years 9 to 13. In addition, it runs a private preparatory school for year 7 and 8 boys. The school also has ...
and
Auckland University College
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, where he was awarded DSc in 1917.
He took holy orders and served the church from 1909 to 1922. He had developed, however, a keen interest in botany and was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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in 1921. He was appointed lecturer in charge of the Botanical Department,
University of Otago
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in 1924. While at the University of Otago he mentored renowned botanists Dame
Ella Orr Campbell
Dame Ella Orr Campbell (28 October 1910 – 24 July 2003) was a New Zealand Botany, botanist. An expert on bryophytes, she published 130 scientific papers on liverworts, hornworts, orchids, and wetlands. She became the first woman faculty membe ...
and
Greta Stevenson
Greta Barbara Stevenson (10 June 1911 – 18 December 1990) was a New Zealand botanist and mycologist. She described many new species of Agaricales (gilled mushrooms).
Background and education
Stevenson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the ol ...
.
In 1937 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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of London, his candidature citation reading: "''With the exception of a short period (1909–1912) spent in Yorkshire and South London, Dr Holloway was actively engaged in parish work in different parts of New Zealand from 1907–1922. Appointed Lecturer in 1924. The greater part of his research was done before he took up academic work. Distinguished for his original work on 'Lycopodium, Tmesipteris, Phylloglossum' and the Hymenphyllaceae (Trans NZ Institute: Annals of Botany); the first to give a complete account of the prothallus and embryogeny of 'Tmesipteris'. The quality of his work, which has made material contributions to morphological botany, is excellent and in the view of the fact that his researches were carried on in very difficult circumstances the quantity is remarkable.'' "
He died in Timaru, New Zealand, on 6 September 1945.
References
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1881 births
1945 deaths
Scientists from Christchurch
People educated at Nelson College
Academic staff of the University of Otago
20th-century New Zealand botanists
20th-century New Zealand Anglican priests
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand Fellows of the Royal Society
Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand scientists