David McClintock, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English botanist (1913-2001)
Date of Birth: 04-Jul-1913
Place of Birth: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 01-Jan-2001
Profession: botanist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About David McClintock
- David Charles McClintock, MBE, VMH, FLS (1913–2001) was an English natural historian, botanist, horticulturist and author.
- In the later twentieth century he was eminent in the worlds of natural history, horticulture and botany, in the British Isles and on the European continent.
- He was the co-author of a popular flora, which sold a quarter of a million copies, and of many other books, papers and reviews.
- He succeeded in recording more than 3,000 species in the British Isles and must have been to virtually every corner of the realm and seen a vast range of rarities – aliens always being a particular interest.
- An amateur, McClintock also bridged the worlds of botany and horticulture, and organised a scientific survey of the natural history of Buckingham Palace Garden.
- He has been described as " one of the most distinguished and productive amateur botanists of his generation"
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