George Heslop-Harrison
Dr George Heslop-Harrison
Life
He was born in 1911 the son of John William Heslop-Harrison and his wife, Christian Watson Henderson. His younger brother was Jack Heslop-Harrison. George studied at Durham University graduating BSc in 1932. He received a doctorate (PhD) in 1934.
In 1934/35 he accompanied his father on trips to the Scottish islands including Canna, Raasay and Eigg. It is not clear if he also accompanied him on the controversial trip to Rum, which escalated into a scandal in the botanical world, when his father claimed evidence of various grass species, evidencing that the island had escaped the Ice Age.[1]
In 1936 he became Director of Plant Pathology and Entomology in Iraq.
In the
In 1947 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alfred Hobson, Robert Wheldon, his father John William Heslop-Harrison and Meirion Thomas. Durham University awarded him a further honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1961.[2]
He died on 3 June 1964 aged 53.
Family
He was married to Dorothy.[3]
Publications
- Natural History on the Isle of Raasay (1938)
References
- ^ The Entomologists Record and Journal of Variation, vol 55 (1946)
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ "George Heslop-Harrison".