Paul Westmacott Richards
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Paul Westmacott Meredith Richards (19/12/1908-4/10/1995)
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Paul Westmacott Meredith Richards
19 Dec 1908 - 4 Oct 1995
Born Walton on the Hill, Surrey 19 December 1908;
1911-1920 Lived in Cardiff. At weekends his older brother, Owain Westmacott Richards (who became a famous entomologist) would return home from boarding school, go on cycle trips into the countryside, to return with botanical specimens for Paul.
1920, when 11 years old visited Daniel Angell Jones, & joined Moss Exchange Club.
1920-1925 University College School.
1925-1927 University College London.
1927 Cambridge University.
Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge 1933,
1937-45 Demonstratorship in Botany, and 1945-49 University Lecturer.
Professor of Botany, University College of North Wales 1949-76 (Emeritus);
Member, Nature Conservancy 1954-67;
Member,
National Parks Commission 1955-59;
Chairman, Nature Conservancy Committee for Wales 1956-67;
President, British Ecological Society 1962-63;
Editor, Journal of Ecology 1958-63;
President, British Bryological Society 1978-79;
CBE 1974;
Linnean Medal 1979;
Married 1935 Sarah Anne Hotham (one son, three daughters);
Died Cambridge 4 October 1995
Wrote "A Preliminary Moss-Flora of Glamorgan", in
TRANSACTIONS OF THE CARDIFF NATURALISTS' SOCIETY. Vol. LIL 1919 p. 44 (printed 1922).
Wrote "Ecological notes on the Bryophytes of Middlesex", Journal of Ecology XVI (1928) 269.
Gave a talk on "The Growing and Cultivation of Bryophytes" at British Bryological Society meeting 1945 Nature 156, 626 (24 November 1945).
Author of "The Tropical Rain Forest" 1996 Cambridge University Press.
Mark Lawley has written a fuller BIOGRAPHY.
His Obituary appeared in The Independent
information included from the herbariaunited database
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