Education
University of Liverpool.
University of Liverpool.
He specialised in plant pathology, with a detailed knowledge relating to raspberries. He was also President of the Association of Applied Mycologists and President of the Association of Applied Biologists. He was born in Glasgow on 16 July 1916.
He studied at Liverpool University and later received a Doctor of Philosophy from Edinburgh University.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950 one of his proposers being Sir William Wright Smith. He lectured in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dundee University.
He died in Edinburgh on 27 September 1971 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery.