Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

British biologist

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1902

Place of Birth: Woodbridge, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1985

Profession: botanist, entomologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal (1835-1881).
In 1921 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, to read classics, but he switched to natural sciences, taking his degree in 1924 and finishing in 1925, then taking a position at Kew Gardens.
He became an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology.