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An English botanist and ecologist.
1943-1956, was Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was responsible for the restoration of the gardens after the Second World War.
1913 DSc achieved, founding member of the British Ecological Society
1929 Professor of Botany at University College London
1946 Knighted