Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

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Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902–1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist.

Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal (1835-1881). In 1921 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, to read classics, but he switched to natural sciences, taking his degree in 1924 and finishing in 1925, then taking a position at Kew Gardens. He became an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology.

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The standard author abbreviation Airy Shaw is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1975. ISBN 9780112410997.
The Euphorbiaceae of New Guinea, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1980. ISBN 9780112411468.

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^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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[0] "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Shaw, Airy
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Date of birth	7 April 1902
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Date of death	1985
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Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

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