Background
Woolliams, Keith Richard was born on July 17, 1940 in Chester, England. Son of Gordon Frank and Margaret Caroline Woolliams.
Arboretum and botanical garden director
Woolliams, Keith Richard was born on July 17, 1940 in Chester, England. Son of Gordon Frank and Margaret Caroline Woolliams.
Graduate, Celyn Agricultural and Horticultural Institute, North Wales, 1955; student, University Liverpool, various horticultural institutions, 1956-1959; Kew Certified, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, 1963.
Superintendent field station, U. London Queen Mary College, Brentwood, Essex., England, 1963-1965; horticulturist, Horizons Ltd., Bermuda, 1965-1967; department forests, superintendent botanic gardens, Papua, New Guinea, 1967-1968; instructor England, staff industrial companies, Japan, 1968-1971; superintendent, horticulturist, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kauai, Hawaii., 1971-1974; horticulturist, Waimea Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Haleiwa, Hawaii., 1974-1980; director, Waimea Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Haleiwa, Hawaii., since 1980. Member Pacific islands plant recovery coordinating committee United States Fish and Wildlife Svc., since 1993. Member Hawaii Rare Plant Restoration Group, since 1991.
Field associate botany Bishop Museum, Honolulu, since 1981. Board directors Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens, 1980-1996. Vice president, founder Waimea Arboretum Foundation, since 1977.
Board directors Condominium Estate, Wahiawa, Hawaii, since 1990. Member American Association Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, American Horticultural Society, HawaiiAudubon Society, Hawaiian Botanical Society (president 1979), International Association Plant Taxonomists, Royal Horticultural Society, Kew Guild.
Married Akiko Narita, April 11, 1969. Children: Frank Hiromi, Angela Misako.
