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Authorised form of namePosnette; Adrian Frank (1914 - 2004)
Other forms of namePeter
Dates1914 - 2004
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKings Heath, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Date of birth11/01/1914
Date of death17/07/2004
OccupationPlant pathologist
ActivityEducation:
Cheltenham Grammar School; Christ's College, Cambridge (1932)
Career:
Research scholarship, Colonial Agricultural Service at Cambridge University School of Agriculture and Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad (1935); posted on Gold Coast (Ghana), worked to preserve West African cocoa crop by developing hybrid Trinitaro plants (1937-1949); East Malling Research Station working on solutions to disease in strawberries and other fruits (1949), head of Pathology Department (1957), deputy director (1969-1972), director (1972-1979); visiting Professor in Plant Sciences at Wye College, London University; awarded Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour (1982)
Honours:
CBE 1976
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1971
Age at election57
RelationshipsMarried (1937) Isabelle La Roche (died 1991)
SourceNon preferred term: named Peter by his nanny
Sources:
Obituaries in Daily Telegraph (27/07/2004), The Times (01/09/2004)
CodeNA4461
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1971/22Posnette, Adrian Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/GA/GRS/5925Posnette, Adrian Franknd
IM/001636Ghana Academy of Sciences: visit of agricultural specialists from the UKnd
S/0037Sculpture of Posnette, Adrian Frank and Blackman, Geoffrey Emett
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