Max Walters
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Dr (Stuart) Max Walters (born Outibridge, Yorkshire 23 May 1920 - died Grantchester, Cambridgeshire 11 December 2005) was Curator of the Herbarium, Botany School, Cambridge University 1949-73, Lecturer in Botany 1962-73, and for the ten years 1973-83 Director of the University Botanic Garden in Cambridge up until his retirement. He was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge 1948-51 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1964-84.
He is the author of numerous books on plants and flowers, most notably the 1952 Atlas of the British Flora (with F. H. 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.
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