Colin Cadman Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including .... 2015-07-29. 9780850668438. Desmond. Ray. 1994-02-25. CRC Press .
2. Geoffrey C. Ainsworth. Brief Biographies of British Mycologists (John Webster, David Moore, eds.), p. 35 (British Mycological Society; 1996)
3. Web site: Colin Houghton Cadman; 16 July 1916--27 September 1971.. Usda.gov. 2015-07-29.
4. Cadman. C. H.. November 1940. Genetical studies on the interrelationships of certain viruses causing necrosis in the potato. Edinburgh Research Archive.

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5. Web site: Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1783-2002 . Royalsoced.org.uk . 2015-07-29 . 24 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf . dead .
6. Web site: University of Dundee Archive Services | The Main Catalogue . Arccat.dundee.ac.uk . 2015-07-29.
7. Book: Edinburgh . Royal Society of . Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 1971 . Royal Society of Edinburgh. . 35 . en.
8. COLIN HOUGHTON CADMAN: 1916–1971. 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1971.tb04680.x. 69. 3. Annals of Applied Biology. 277–278. 1971. Harris. R.V..