Charles Edward Foister
Charles Edward Foister | |
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| Born | 17 August 1903 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 23 July 1989 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
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Dr Charles Edward Foister FRSE (17 August 1903 – 23 July 1989) was a British botanist and plant pathologist. He was Director of Scottish Agricultural Scientific Services in Edinburgh from 1957. He specialised in lichens and fungi.[1]
Life
[edit]He was born in Cambridge in England on 17 August 1903, the son of Frederick W Foister and his wife Esther Elizabeth Smith.[2] He was educated locally and won a place at the University of Cambridge graduating with a BA in 1925. He continued as a postgraduate taking a Diploma in Agricultural Science (1927). He later received a doctorate (PhD) from the University of Edinburgh in 1931.[3]
He was employed as a plant pathologist in eastern Edinburgh for all of his working life. He became the official plant pathologist for the UK in 1938.[4] He was an active member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.
In 1954, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Wright Smith, Stephen J Watson, Malcolm Wilson and Alexander Nelson.[5]
He died at Colchester in Essex on 23 July 1989.
He never married and was presumed homosexual.[citation needed]
Publications
[edit]- The Relationship of Weather to Fungus and Bacterial Diseases (1935)
- Descriptions of New Fungi Causing Economic Diseases in Scotland (1940)
- Dry Rot Disease of Potato (1952)
- Mrs N L Alcock (1972)
Botanical references
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries". kiki.huh.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Charles Edward Foister". geni_family_tree. 17 August 1903. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ Foister, Charles Edward (1931). "Researches on two diseases of economic plants caused by phytophthora species".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ The London Gazette 8 April 1938
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Foister.
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