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- c. 1939-1976 (Creation)
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Born in Birkenhead in 1902
School - Birkenhead School
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1924)
Demonstrator at Manchester University
1936 - Fellow of Clare College
1960 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960
1969 - Professor Emeritus
His major work was a three-volume treatise on tissue culture, "Cells and Tissue in Culture: methods, biology and physiology" (1965).
He created oil paintings detailing landscapes, mainly in Cambridgeshire and Mid Wales
He designed the Fellows' Garden in Clare College
Died - April 2001
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Papers relating to the College gardens, the history of the trees with slides of plans of gardens; Air raid instructions and other procedures in the Second World War; the opening of the extension to Memorial Court, 1955; College matters; the brickwork of wall of Master's garden backing onto river, 1970.
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See also CCGB/4/17 for Gardens Committee and CCHR/1/11 for file on history of the gardens.