| Authorised form of name | Bradshaw; Anthony David (1926 - 2008) |
| Dates | 1926 - 2008 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Richmond, Surrey, England |
| Date of birth | 17/01/1926 |
| Date of death | 21/08/2008 |
| Activity | Education:
BSc. in Botany, Jesus College Cambridge(1947);
Career:
Moved to Aberystwith as a research student and then as lecturer in Bangor; did outsdtanding work on metal tolerance, demonstrating the power of natural selelction to bring about rapid evolutionary changes in natural grasses, een when the population was separated by only very short distances, hence, locally adapted races could evolve easily.
Chair of Borany at Liverpool University (1968);
Founding Chair of the British Ecological Society; member of the Nature Conservancy Council and the National Forestry Unit. Citizen of Honour decoration from Liverpool City Council (2008).
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1982 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Croonian 1991 |
| Relationships | Married Betty Alliston in 1955 (died 2000); three daughters. |
| Source | Sources:
Biographical
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Volume 56 2010, pp 3 - 24, by A H Fitter FRS
References:
Anthony D Bradshaw FRS (and Vassiliki B Smocovitis), 'George Ledyard Stebbins', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 397-409, plate |
| Code | NA6180 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/000517 | Bradshaw, Anthony David | c 1982 |
| EC/1982/05 | Bradshaw, Anthony David: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1980 |