Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby | |
|---|---|
 Ashby in June 1958. | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 6 July 1973 – 22 October 1992 Life Peerage | |
| 5th Chancellor of the Queen's University Belfast | |
| In office 1970–1983 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Tyrone Guthrie |
| Succeeded by | Sir Rowland Wright |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Eric Ashby 24 August 1904 Leytonstone, Essex, England |
| Died | 22 October 1992 (aged 88) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Helen Margaret Farries |
| Alma mater | City of London School Royal College of Science |
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, FRS[1] (24 August 1904 – 22 October 1992) was a British botanist and educator.
Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the City of London School and the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929. In 1929, he received a Harkness Fellowship to the University of Chicago.[2] Ashby was a lecturer at Imperial College from 1931 to 1935, and at the University of Bristol from 1935 to 1938.[citation needed]
- ^ Heslop-Harrison, J. (1995). "Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, of Brandon, Suffolk, Kt. 24 August 1904-22 October 1992". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41: 2–18. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0001. S2CID 61942475.
- ^ Profile Archived 25 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, royalsoced.org.uk; accessed 18 April 2016.