Cecil Terence Ingold
Cecil Terence Ingold
Academic career
Terence Ingold was born at
In 1927, the year in which he was elected to the
University of Reading
In 1929 Dr. Ingold received a faculty lectureship in the Department of Botany, then led by Professor J.R. Matthews, at the
University of Leicester
Involvement with the Society strengthened Dr. Ingold's interests in the Fungi. They had become fully confirmed when, in 1937, he was appointed Lecturer in Charge of the Department of Botany at the University College of Leicester. Harris's constant encouragement and guidance were acknowledged in his book Spore Discharge in Land Plants, then in preparation.[7] Ingold took the opportunity to clear away the preserved specimens and to teach from living plants. The analytic and instructive clarity of his line-drawings from the microscope were a hallmark of his research and teaching. The Leicestershire waters and waterways and their aquatic fungi became a focus of interest studied by a circle of his research students, especially in relation to chytridiaceous parasites of freshwater algae (in which his student Hilda Canter (Lund) became expert[6]), and to aquatic Hyphomycetes. In 1942 he published his seminal work: "Aquatic hyphomycetes of decaying alder leaves".[8]
Birkbeck College, University of London
The researches so commenced, and his own particular interest in the hyphomycetes, were continued by Ingold and his students over many years. In 1944 he was appointed to probably the foremost chair in United Kingdom in the field of mycology, at
At Birkbeck Professor Ingold continued to take a major role in the undergraduate teaching, and was joined in 1946 by his wartime Leicester student Bryan Plunkett
An MSc course in mycology was developed,
Service to scientific and educational bodies
In the University of London Professor Ingold was Dean of the Faculty of Science (1956–60), Chairman of the University Entrance and School's Examination Council (1958–64), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1966–68), and Chairman of the Academic Council (1969–72). He served as Vice-Master of Birkbeck College from 1965 to 1970. He was a member of the Inter-Universities' Council for Higher Education Overseas, and its vice-chairman 1969–74. He made special efforts towards the development of the
Having served on the Council of the Linnean Society from 1955 to 1957, Professor Ingold was its Botanical Secretary from 1962 to 1997, was Vice-President in 1954–55 and 1965–66, and was a gold medallist in 1983. He was twice President of the British Mycological Society (1953 and 1971), and was President of the First International Congress of Mycology at Exeter in 1971. He was also Chairman of the Council of the Freshwater Biological Association 1965–74.[5] He continued to work on fungi for thirty years after his retirement.[1] By 1985, at the age of 80, he had produced 174 scientific publications;[15] and approximately 100 appeared after that date.[6]
His daughter is Patsy Healey[16] and son is the noted anthropologist Tim Ingold.[17]
Contribution to mycology
Terence Ingold is best known for his pioneering studies into the mechanism of spore discharge; his textbook The Biology of Fungi (which ran to five editions between 1961 and 1984), and for his discovery of an entirely new group of fungi – the aquatic hyphomycetes – of which more than 300 species are now recognised.[18]
Honours and recognition
- In 1970 the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) was awarded to Ingold for his work in higher education, in both Africa and Jamaica, as well as the UK.[18]
- In 1974 he delivered the Hooker Lecture, and he was awarded the Linnean Medal for Botany in 1983.[6] In 1985 the Society published a Festschrift in his honour.[19]
- He received honorary degrees from the Universities of Ibadan, Kent and Exeter.[5]
- He was elected Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America.[5]
- In 1996 he was awarded the De Bary Award by the International Mycological Association for "lifetime achievement in mycological research, particularly, contributions to our knowledge of fungal spore release and dispersal and the recognition of aquatic fungi as ecological specialists".[18]
- In 1998 he received the Millennium Botanical Award and Botanical Congress Gold Medal from the International Botanical Congress.[4]
Major works
- 1939. Spore discharge in land plants. Oxford University Press. 178 pages; illustrated.[20] ASIN B000872J9A
- 1971. Fungal spores: their liberation and dispersal. Oxford University Press.ISBN 9780198541158
- This book is a new edition in combined form of Ingold's Dispersal in Fungi (1953)[22] and Spore Liberation (1965).
Eponymous taxa
- Ingoldia
- Ingoldiella
- Ingoldiomyces
- Acaromyces ingoldii
- Bensingtonia ingoldii
- Lindgomyces ingoldianus
- Lophiostoma ingoldianum
- Massarina ingoldiana
- Pseudocercophora ingoldii
See also
Notes
- ^ S2CID 38654384.
- ^ The Ingoldian fungi are primarily responsible for leaf decay and nutrient recycling in streams. See, e.g., 'Fungi in streams: a leaf nightmare', Cornell Mushroom Blog 24 August 2008 (Cornell University).
- ^ a b Dawson, John. "Who's in a name: Ingoldian fungi". Archived from the original on 1 April 2012.
- ^ a b c d Webster, J. (2010). "Obituary. Professor Terence Ingold, 1905–2010'" (PDF). Mycologist News, Newsletter of the British Mycological Society (4): 22–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2016.
- ^ . Reprinted as 'Introduction' in Contributions to Mycology. A Tribute to Professor C.T. Ingold on his eightieth birthday, eds. M.W. Dick, D.N. Pegler & B.C. Sutton (Academic Press/Linnean Society of London 1985),pp. vii–xv.
- ^ The Linnean. 26 (3): 38–41. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 April 2016.
- ^ C.T. Ingold, Spore Discharge in Land Plants (Oxford University Press, 1939), p. vi.
- .
- hymenomyceteswas awarded in 1951.
- ^ C.T. Ingold, 'Birkbeck Botany', The Lodestone Vol. 55 no. 3 (Diamond Jubilee edition), Summer 1965, pp. 36–37.
- ^ C.T. Ingold, Dispersal in Fungi (Oxford University Press 1953).
- ^ C.T. Ingold, Spore Liberation (Oxford University Press, 1965)
- ^ C.T. Ingold, Fungal Spores, Their Liberation and Dispersal (Oxford University Press, 1971).
- ^ C.T. Ingold, The Biology of Fungi (Hutchinson, London 1961): 5th Edition, 1984.
- ^ Listed in Contributions to Mycology (1985), pp. xi–xv.
- ^ 'HEALEY, Prof. Patsy', Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 29 May 2013
- ^ Marren, Peter (18 June 2010). "Professor C Terence Ingold: Foremost authority on the study of fungi whose work spanned eight decades". The Independent. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ a b c Hawksworth, David L. "Obituary: C Terence Ingold (1905–2010)" (PDF). IMA Fungus. International Mycological Association. pp. 17–18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ M.W. Dick, D.N. Pegler & B.C. Sutton (eds), Contributions to Mycology. A Tribute to Professor C.T. Ingold on his eightieth birthday (Academic Press/Linnean Society of London 1985).
- S2CID 4076024.
- .
- S2CID 4266797.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Ingold.
Other sources
- Webster John (2005). "Centenary of a mycologist: C. Terence Ingold". Mycological Research. 109 (7): 753–754. .
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