| Authorised form of name | Pereira; Sir; Herbert Charles (1913 - 2004) |
| Other forms of name | Charles |
| Other forms of surname | Perry |
| Dates | 1913 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 12/05/1913 |
| Place of death | Teston, Kent |
| Date of death | 19/12/2004 |
| Occupation | Agronomist; Hydrologist |
| Research field | Agriculture |
| Activity | Education:
Lived on Cree Indian reservation, Saskatchewan, Canada where his father ran an school and church; returned to England aged 15 and attended St Albans School; London University (degree in Physics and Mathematics); Rothamsted Experimental Station (PhD in Soil Physics) - funded research by part time teaching and working on the estate of Ottershaw School, Chertsey
Career:
Royal Engineers, Middle East (WW2); Staff, Colonial Agricultural Service, Coffee Research Station, Kenya (1946-1952); led local Kenyan Police Reserve; staff, Colonial Research Service at East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisation, Kenya (1952-1961); Director, Agricultural Research Council of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1961-1963); Director, Agricultural Research Council of Central Africa (Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi) (1963-1967); awarded Haile Selassie prize for Research in Africa (1966); Chairman of UN Land Use Comission of the International Hydrological Decade (1965-1974); sabattical year at Cambridge University; Director, East Malling Research Station (1969-1972); Chief Scientist (Deputy Secretary), Ministry of Agriculture (1972-1977); President, Tropical Agricultural Association (1989-2001); trustee of Marie Stopes International (1991); on the Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Honours:
Kt 1977 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1969 |
| Age at election | 55 |
| Relationships | Married (1941) Irene Sloan |
| Source | Sources:
Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 54, 2008, pp 245-256
Obituaries in Independent (11 January 2005); The Times (13 January 2005); Telegraph (1 February 2005) |
| Code | NA4736 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| PB/7/2/3/5 | Correspondence with Charles Pereira on high wage costs in developing countries | 1971 |
| IM/003512 | Pereira, Sir Herbert Charles | nd |
| IM/GA/GRS/5444 | Pereira, Sir Herbert Charles | nd |
| HWT/15/3 | Letters and report from Royal Society observers at the planning conference | November - December 1969 |
| EC/1969/25 | Pereira, Herbert Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |