William Broadhurst Brierley

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William Broadhurst Brierley (1889–1963) was an English

mycologist
. He is known particularly for his work on "grey mould".

Life

Brierley had a deprived background, and was brought up in a poor district of Manchester. At 14 he became a pupil-teacher in his elementary school. He went into teacher training at Victoria University of Manchester, and then moved to the botany course.[1] There he studied under Frederick Ernest Weiss at[2] At this period he taught evening classes to support himself. With an honours degree of 1911 in botany, he went on at Manchester to complete an M.Sc.[1] He married in July 1914: he knew Susan Fairhurst through the undergraduate Sociological Society. They lived in Levenshulme.[3] He was then an assistant lecturer in economic botany and demonstrator at Manchester.[4]

During

Rothamsted Experimental Station.[7]

In 1934 Brierley became professor of agricultural botany at the University of Reading, as successor to John Percival.[5][8] He retired in 1954. In later life, he and his second wife Marjorie Brierley resided in the Newlands Valley.[5][9]

Works

In 1916 Brierley showed that shab, a disease of

soil fungi.[12]

For 25 years, Brierley edited the

Annals of Applied Biology.[5] He translated the Pflanzliche Infektionslehre (1946) of Ernst Albert Gäumann as Principles of Plant Infection (1950).[13]

Family

Brierley married, firstly, in 1914

Susan Sutherland Fairhurst. They were divorced, after a separation that began around 1918; and in 1922 she married Nathan Isaacs.[14][15] Brierley's second wife was Marjorie Brierley.[16]

Notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85575-691-5
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  2. JSTOR 769232
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-85575-691-5
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  4. ^ Manchester, University of (1914). Calendar. p. 68.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-9527704-0-4
    .
  6. ISBN 978-1-85575-691-5
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  7. ^ Russell, Sir Edward John (1966). A History of Agricultural Science in Great Britain, 1620-1954. Allen & Unwin. p. 320.
  8. ^ London, Linnean Society of (2001). The Linnean: Newsletter and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. The Society. p. 11.
  9. ^ "Women Psychoanalysts in Great Britain, Marjorie Brierley". www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de.
  10. ^ Upson, Tim; Andrews, Susyn (2004). The Genus Lavandula. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. p. 61.
  11. ^ Journal of Agricultural Research. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1926. p. 613.
  12. ISBN 978-0-521-21013-3
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  13. JSTOR 2809911
  14. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1
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  15. ISBN 978-1-85575-691-5
    .
  16. ISBN 978-1-85575-691-5
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