Frederick Tom Brooks

Frederick Tom Brooks (17 December 1882 – 11 March 1952) was an English botanist, and was Professor of Botany, Cambridge University.

He was born in Somerset and attended Sexey's School, Somerset from 1895-1898. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1902 and became Professor of Botany there in 1936. He specialised in mycology and investigated, amongst other things, silver-leaf disease of fruit trees. His book Plant Diseases appeared in 1928.[1]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930.

He died in Cambridge aged 70.

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