
Bernard Cracroft Aston (9 August 1871 – 31 May 1951), also known as Barney Aston, was New Zealand's first official agricultural chemist and was also a notable botanist. He was born in
Beckenham
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,
Kent
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, England, on 9 August 1871. He was a member of the
1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition.
He was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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in the
1949 New Year Honours for services to agriculture and botany.
References
1871 births
1951 deaths
20th-century New Zealand chemists
20th-century New Zealand botanists
English emigrants to New Zealand
Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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