Bruce Levy

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Dr Sir Enoch Bruce Levy OBE (February 19, 1892–October 16, 1985) was a botanist from New Zealand who became widely known for his work on improving pastures.

He was born in Auckland in 1892, and lived on a farm until he was eighteen. He joined the New Zealand Department of Agriculture in 1911, and studied science at Victoria University in Wellington from 1926 to 1928. In 1925 he married schoolteacher Phyllis Rosa Kate Mason.

In 1937 he founded the Grasslands Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and was Director of that division until he retired in 1951. During that time he travelled all over New Zealand, helping farmers to improve their pastures based on techniques he'd learned in Europe. After retiring, he worked on improving the turf of golf courses and bowling greens.

Sir Bruce Levy is the author of Construction, Renovation and Care of the Bowling Green (1949); Construction, Renovation and Care of the Golf Course (1950); and Grasslands of New Zealand (1951).

He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1950, and knighted in 1953.