Percy Goom, 1865 - 1931

Abstract

Professor Percy Groom was bom in 1865, and was educated at Mason College, Birmingham, and later at the University of Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner at Trinity College. He took Botany as his chief subject in the Tripos (part ii) and subsequently was elected to a Frank Smart Studentship at Caius College. He spent some time in Germany, attaching himself to the University of Bonn at the time when the School of Botany there was under the direction of the eminent Professor Strasburger, who was attracting many English and American students to wrork under him. Here he enjoyed the friendship of the keen band of assistants whom Strasburger had gathered round him, and notably that of A. F. W. Schimper who greatly influenced him in his outlook on botanical science.