Seward, Albert Charles

Epithet: Professor of Botany at Cambridge University

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Sir Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941), botanist and geologist, was born at Lancaster on 9 October 1863. He attended Lancaster Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a Harkness scholarship in 1888. He was a Fellow and tutor of Emmanuel College, 1899-1906. Seward became university lecturer in botany in 1890, and was Professor of Botany, 1906-1936. He was Master of Downing College, 1915-1936, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, 1924-1926. He was knighted in 1936, and died at Oxford on 11 April 1941.

Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854-1934), palaeobotanist, was born in London on 28 November 1854. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, 1872-1876, and trained as an engineer, 1876-1879. After studying botany at Wrzburg, 1880-1882, he was in charge, under T.H. Huxley, of botanical work at the Normal School of Science, 1885-1892. He became an honorary director of the Jodrell Laboratory, Kew, in 1892. Scott retired to Oakley House, near Basingstoke, in 1906, where he died on 29 January 1934.

From the guide to the Sir Albert Seward: Letters and notes, 1888-1932, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)