Thomas James Jenkin (1885–1965) was professor of agriculture at

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and director of the

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from 1942 to 1950.

Biography

Thomas James Jenkin was born in 1885 in

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. He was Agricultural Officer for Brecon and Radnorshire from 1914 to 1915 and advisor in agricultural botany at the

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, Bangor from 1915 to 1920. In 1919 he was appointed by Sir George Stapledon as grass breeder at the newly formed

. He was an early pioneer of grass breeding and genetics and made some of the earliest advances in hybridisation of grass species. He succeeded Stapledon as director of the WPBS in 1942, on the recommendation of

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. He was President of the

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in 1943–44. He retired as director in 1950 and died in 1965.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkin, T. J. 1885 births 1965 deaths Academics of Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth Old Students' Association Welsh scientists Welsh scholars and academics 20th-century Welsh scientists 20th-century British botanists