Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark CBE FRS (13 January 1903 – 24 November 1975) was a British biologist.

Early life

He was born in Edinburgh the son of Thomas Bennet-Clark, a chartered accountant with the Edinburgh firm of R. & G. Scott, and his wife, Anne Chalmers Hanna. He was educated at Wells House School at Malvern Wells and then

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and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

He was a Lecturer at the University of Manchester from 1930 to 1936; Professor of Botany at the University of Nottingham from 1936 to 1944; Professor of Botany at

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from 1944 to 1962; Professor of Biology and Dean of the

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at the University of East Anglia from 1962 to 1967, and Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of East Anglia from 1967. In Birmingham his position was filled by Prof Charles Chesters. He was the first executive editor of the Journal of Experimental Botany, which published its first issue in 1950.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1950 and awarded a CBE in 1966.

Family

He married Constance Haythornthwaite in 1926.

References

1903 births 1975 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Academics of the University of Nottingham Academics of King's College London Fellows of King's College London Academics of the University of East Anglia Fellows of the Royal Society Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-scientist-stub