Robert James Douglas Graham

Prof Robert James Douglas Graham FRSE (1884-1950) was a Scottish botanist.

Life

He was born on 20 July 1884 in Perth, the son of Dr John Thomas Graham. His family lived at 4 Athole Crescent in Perth.[1] He was educated at Perth Academy then went to St Andrews University graduating MA in 1904.

From 1910 to 1914 he served as Economic Botanist to the Indian Agricultural Service. In the First World War he served as a Lt Colonel in the Indian Army Reserve.[2] In 1919 and 1920 he was Director of Agriculture for Mesopotamia. In 1921 he went to Edinburgh University as a Lecturer in Botany.[3]

In 1924 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Wright Smith, Frederick Orpen Bower, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Robert Campbell. He served the Society as Secretary 1939 to 1944 and Vice President 1944 to 1947.[4]

In 1934 he became Professor of Botany at St Andrews University.

He died in St Andrews on 3 September 1950.

The standard author abbreviation R.J.D.Graham is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Family

He was married to Johanna (Oona) M. Reid.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Perth Post Office Directory 1884-85
  2. ↑ https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/1413523
  3. ↑ Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, by Ray Desmond
  4. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  5. ↑ IPNI.  R.J.D.Graham.
  6. ↑ https://pacific.st-andrews.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=90&dsqSearch=((text)%3D%27thomas%20chalmers%27)
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