Colin Cadman
Scottish botanist (1916–1971)
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Dr Colin Houghton Cadman FRSE (16 July 1916 – 27 September 1971) was a Scottish botanist who served as Director of the Scottish Horticultural Institute 1956 to 1971. He specialised in plant pathology, with a detailed knowledge relating to raspberries. He was also President of the Association of Applied Mycologists in 1971[1] and President of the Association of Applied Biologists from 1969 to 1970.[2]
Life
He was born in Glasgow on 16 July 1916.[3] He studied at the University of Liverpool, and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1940.[1][4]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950 one of his proposers being Sir William Wright Smith.[5]
He lectured in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Dundee.[6]
He died in Edinburgh on 27 September 1971 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery.
Family
He was unmarried and had no children.[7]
Works
- Annals of Applied Biology (1971)[8]
