Seward, Sir Albert Charles, 1863-1941 (Knight, botanist and geologist)
Dates
- Existence: 1863 - 1941
Biography
Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941) was educated at Lancaster Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in each part of the Natural Sciences tripos. He became university lecturer in botany (1890), FRS (1898), and fellow and tutor of Emmanuel College (1900). In 1906 he was appointed professor of botany, holding the chair for thirty years, from 1915 in conjunction with the mastership of Downing College. He retired from both posts in 1936, the year in which he received a knighthood.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
A.C. Seward: Letters from D.H. Scott, and notebooks
Correspondence from the distinguished palaeobotanist Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854-1934), honorary director of the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and notebooks containing notes on plant fossils.
Photograph of a large group of botanists [possibly the 1922 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section K (Botany) group] including A C Seward and H Hamshaw Thomas, 1922
Includes Prof. A. C. Seward (2nd from right on front seated row) and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas and Edith Gertrude Torrance ['Torrie'], his wife from 1923 (3rd and 4th from right on row behind). Also includes John Walton (Seward's son-in-law) seated 2nd from left on ground. Henry Horation Dixon (President of Section K, 1922) is seated centre on the front row, with Edith Saunders (in black) to his right.
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