Education
Street John"s College.
Street John"s College.
As a conscientious objector in the Second World War, he worked as a hospital orderly in Sheffield and Bristol. He was Curator of the Herbarium, Botany School, University of Cambridge 1949-1973, Lecturer in Botany 1962-1973, and for the ten years up until his retirement, 1973-1983, Director of the University Botanic Garden in Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow at Street John"s College, Cambridge 1948-1951 and Fellow of King"s College, Cambridge 1964-1984.
He was the author of numerous books on plants and flowers, most notably the 1964 Atlas of the British Flora (with Franklyn Perring) and as a co-editor of Flora Europaea.
He wrote two well-known books for the New Naturalist library, Wild Flowers (1954, co-written with John Gilmour) and Mountain Flowers (1956, with John Raven). He was much involved in the research and management of Wicken Fen.