Arthur Church

Arthur Church

Arthur Harry Church F.R.S. (28 March 1865 – 24 April 1937) was a British botanist.

Biography

Church was educated at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class Oxford degree in botany in 1894. He was a Research Fellow of Jesus College from 1908 to 1912 and University Reader in Botany from 1910 to 1930. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921. His particular fields of interest were phyllotaxy, the development and arrangement of parts of the flower and one-celled sea plants.cite news|title=Dr. A. H. Church An Oxford Botanist|work=The Times |date=April 29 1937|page=18] He was a fine illustrator and photographer, sometimes illustrating his own publications.cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38462| title=Church, Arthur Harry (1865–1937)|last=Mabberley |first=D. J |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|accessdate=2008-07-22]

External links

* [http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2001-02/v14n2/07.shtml Profile of Church in "Oxford Today"]

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