Prof. W. Robinson

Abstract

PROF. WILFRED ROBINSON, professor of botany at University College, Aberystwyth, died on Mar. 7 after several months of ill-health. He was born at Hull in 1884 and early became interested in botany, for his father, J. F. Robinson, a schoolmaster, was author of the “Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire”. He entered University College, Nottingham, and took his London B.Sc. (Hons.) in botany. His first post was science master at Penketh Friends' School, Warrington. In 1912 he was awarded a research studentship at the Victoria University and became successively Platt scholar in botany, lecturer in botany, and assistant to the professor of cryptogamic botany, and then, in 1916, senior lecturer. He was appointed to the chair at Aberystwyth in 1926.