The Sherardian Chair of Botany is a professorship at the

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that was established in 1734. It was created following an endowment by William Sherard on his death in 1728. In his will, Sherard stipulated that the first holder of the chair was to be

Johann Jacob Dillenius Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius (1684 – 2 April 1747) was a German botanist. He is known for his ''Hortus Elthamensis'' ("Eltham Garden") on the rare plants around Eltham, London, and for his ''Historia muscorum'' ("History of Mosses"), a natu ...

. The Sherardian Professor is also a

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Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College ( ) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete. It is one of the wealthiest Oxford colleges, as of 2022, and ...

List of Sherardian Professors of Botany

(1734 to 1747) * Humphry Sibthorp (1747 to 1783) *

John Sibthorp John Sibthorp (28 October 1758 – 8 February 1796) was an English botanist. Education Sibthorp graduated from the University of Oxford in 1777 where he was an undergraduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He subsequently studied medi ...

(1784 to 1796) * George Williams (1796 to 1834) * Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1834 to 1867) * Marmaduke Alexander Lawson (1868 to 1882) *

Isaac Bayley Balfour Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, KBE, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922) was a Scottish botanist. He was Regius Prof ...

(1884 to 1888) * Sydney Howard Vines (1888 to 1919) * Frederick Keeble (1920 to 1927) *

Arthur Tansley Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology. Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught ...

(1927 to 1937) * Theodore Osborn (1937 to 1953) * C. D. Darlington (1953 to 1971) * F. R. Whatley (1971 to 1991) *Hugh G. Dickinson (1991 to 2009) * Liam Dolan (2009 to 2021) *Lars Østergaard (2022 to present)

References

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