Person Bradshaw; Anthony David (1926 - 2008) Bradshaw Anthony David 1926 - 2008 British Male Richmond, Surrey, England 17/01/1926 19260117 21/08/2008 20080821

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). Married Betty Alliston in 1955 (died 2000); three daughters. Lectures: Croonian 1991 Fellow 18/03/1982 56 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 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 17 Jan 1926 - NA6180 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes ab79ed08-34ad-4f23-8d68-9a1814f670de