Person Pereira; Sir; Herbert Charles (1913 - 2004) Pereira Herbert Charles Sir tropical agriculturalist Charles Perry 1913 - 2004 British Male London, England 12/05/1913 19130512 Teston, Kent 19/12/2004 20041219

Agronomist; Hydrologist Agriculture 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 Married (1941) Irene Sloan Fellow 20/03/1969 55 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) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 12 May 1913 - NA4736 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 05/06/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 52d45969-7425-4591-bffe-c5bdb56b9f60