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 ...

at the

University of Aberdeen , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...

in Scotland.

List of Regius Professors of Botany

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

James W. H. Trail James William Helenus Trail FRS 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 Birsay on the isle of Orkney on 4 March 1851. ...

* 1920 to 1933: William Grant Craib * 1934 to 1959:

James Robert Matthews James Robert Matthews FRSE FLS CBE LLD (1889–1978) was a 20th-century 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 vill ...

* 1959 to 1981: Paul Egerton Weatherley * 1982 to 1988:

Charles Henry Gimingham Charles Henry Gimingham (28 April 1923 – 19 June 2018) was a British botanist at the University of Aberdeen, patron of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, former president of the British Ecological Society, and one of ...

* 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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