Regius Professor of Botany is a

regius professorship A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine, and ...

at the

University of Aberdeen , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...

in Scotland.

List of Regius Professors of Botany

* 1860 to 1877: George Dickie * 1877 to 1919: James W. H. Trail * 1920 to 1933:

William Grant Craib William Grant Craib (10 March 1882 in Banff, Aberdeenshire – 1 September 1933 in Kew) was a British botanist. Craib was Regius Professor of Botany at Aberdeen University and later worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Life Craib was bo ...

* 1934 to 1959:

James Robert Matthews James Robert Matthews FRSE FLS CBE LLD (1889–1978) was a 20th-century Scottish botanist. He was president of the British Ecological Society in 1934 and president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 1939 to 1942. Life He was born in the vil ...

* 1959 to 1981: Paul Egerton Weatherley * 1982 to 1988: Charles Henry Gimingham * 1996 to 2010: Ian AlexanderBotanist to retire after almost four decades at University
Press release of the University of Aberdeen; 30. September 2010; read 3. May 2015.

References

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