Edward Charles Daniel Cocking FRS (26 September 1931 – 14 July 2023), known as Ted Cocking, was a British plant scientist, and Emeritus Professor at

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

. He was on the Board of Trustees of

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...

, from 1983 to 1993. He was on the Board of Directors of Lawes Agricultural Trust Company and was a foreign fellow of the

National Academy of Agricultural Sciences The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) is a Government of India funded agency, established in 1990, is a research platform in the fields of crop husbandry, animal husbandry, fisheries and agro-forestry. It acts as a research base for ...

References

External links

"The Quest for Nitrogen Fixing Cereals"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cocking, Edward 1931 births 2023 deaths British botanists Academics of the University of Nottingham Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences