George Taylor (botanist)

Sir George Taylor, FRS^[1] FRSE FLS (15 February 1904, in Edinburgh – 13 November 1993, in Dunbar) was a Scottish botanist.

He graduated from Cambridge University with a BSc in Biology in 1928 and was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1956 to 1971. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 Cullen, J. (1995). "Sir George Taylor. 15 February 1904-12 November 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41: 458–469. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0027.
↑ "Obituary: Sir George Taylor". The Independent. 16 November 1993. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
↑ ‘TAYLOR, Sir George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 19 May 2011
↑ IPNI. G.Taylor.

Directors of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
William Aiton William Townsend Aiton Sir William Hooker Sir Joseph Hooker Sir William Thiselton-Dyer Sir David Prain Sir Arthur Hill Sir Geoffrey Evans (acting) Sir Edward Salisbury Sir George Taylor Jack Heslop-Harrison Professor Patrick Brenan Professor Arthur Bell Sir Ghillean Prance Sir Peter Crane Professor Stephen D. Hopper Richard Deverell

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