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 f ...

at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

in Scotland.

List of Regius Professors of Botany

* 1860 to 1877: George Dickie * 1877 to 1919:

James W. H. Trail James William Helenus Trail Royal Society of London, FRS Linnean Society, FLS (4 March 1851 – 18 September 1919) was a 20th-century botanist who served as Professor of Botany at Aberdeen University from 1877 to 1919. Life He was born in Bir ...

* 1920 to 1933:

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

* 1934 to 1959:

James Robert Matthews James Robert Matthews FRSE FLS CBE LLD (1889–1978) was a 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 village of Dunni ...

* 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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