Michael Proctor (botanist), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Michael Proctor (botanist)

English botanist and plant ecologist, lecturer, and scientific author

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1929

Date of Death: 24-Oct-2017

Profession: botanist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Michael Charles Faraday Proctor PhD (21 January 1929 – 24 October 2017) was an English botanist and plant ecologist, lecturer, scientific author based at the University of Exeter.
He retired from his post as Reader in Plant Ecology at Exeter University in 1994.M.C.F.
Proctor published more than 100 research papers, and was regarded as one of Britain's pre-eminent plant ecologists.
In 1968 he revised and updated Arthur Tansley's book 'Britain's Green Mantle'.
He was a contributing author to all of the five volumes of the definitive work on British Plant Communities, edited by J.Rodwell (1991-2000), and also wrote three books in the New Naturalist Series: two on pollination, and one on the vegetation of Britain and Ireland.