Alan Burges

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Not to be confused with Alan Burgess.

Norman Alan Burges

New University of Ulster
in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.

Life

He was born 5 August 1911, in

PhD in mycology[1] at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After a short period as a Research Fellow at Emmanuel, at the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Royal Air Force serving in Bomber Command.[2]

After the war he returned to Australia and in 1947 became professor of botany at the University of Sydney, and later dean of the Faculty of Science and a Fellow of Senate there.[3] he also acted as the honorary general secretary of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science during that period.[2]

In 1952 he returned to England to take the post of professor of potany (a chair endowed by and named after Holbrook Gaskell) at the University of Liverpool[4] Subsequently he became acting vice-chancellor (1964–5) and pro-vice chancellor (1965–66) there.[2] He served as president of the British Ecological Society 1958-1959[5] He was one of the four long-term co-editors of Flora Europaea Project from 1956.

In 1966 he was appointed as the first vice-chancellor of the

New University of Ulster
in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, where he remained until retirement in 1976.

Following retirement he took an active part in Ulster cultural affairs, for example as chairman, of the

National Trust (1978–81).[2]

He was appointed

CBE in 1980.[6]

The standard author abbreviation Burges is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

Publications

  • Burges, Alan (1958). Micro-Organisms in the Soil. Hutchinson.
  • Burges, Alan; Raw, Frank (1967). Soil Biology. Academic Press.

Personal life

In 1940 he married Florence Evelyn Moulton; they had three daughters, Judith, Jennifer and Anne. They also had a son Andrew who died as a young child. Alan died on 4 October 2002.

References

  1. ISBN 9780521367516
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  2. ^ a b c d obituary at Google Groups
  3. ^ University of Sydney Fellows of Senate
  4. ^ University of Liverpool Chairs and their Holders[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ British Ecological Society Presidential Address, January 1959
  6. ^ London Gazette January 1980
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Burges.
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