Stan Woodell

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Stan Woodell (died 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.

Stanley Reginald John Woodell obtained a PhD from the University of Durham. He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.

As a botanist, Woodell co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.

Woodell died aged 75. A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.

[edit] References

• John Killick, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell, Flora of Oxfordshire (Pisces Publications, 1998, ISBN 1-874357-07-2).

[edit] External links

• Oxford University Gazette notice
• Wolfson College notice
• Memorial Tree Planting