Albert George Long
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Dr Albert George Long FRSE LLD (1915–1999) was a British educator and palaeobotanist. He was an expert on the Lower Carboniferous period. He was creator of the Cupule-Carpel Theory.
Life
He was born in Inskip, Lancashire. on 28 January 1915. the son of Rev Albert James Long (died 1940), a Baptist minister, and his wife, Isabel Amblet (died 1960). He attended school in Todmorden. As a schoolboy he was shot in the left foot and relied on a medical boot to walk, walking with a permanent limp. He then studied science at Manchester University under Professor William Henry Lang.{{cite web |url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/Long_a.pdf |publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh |title=ALBERT GEORGE LONG |accessdate=2018-09-11 |archive-date=11 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911225422/https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/Long_a.pdf |url-status=dead }} He then underwent training as a teacher and, initially, took a post at Lewes in Sussex.
In 1945, he began teaching science at Berwickshire High School in Duns in the Scottish Borders. In 1962, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Charles Waterston, John Walton, Alexander Mackie and Claude Wardlaw. Unusually, he won the society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the period 1958 to 1960, before being made a fellow. In 1966, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc) from his alma mater and, in 1967, a second honorary doctorate (LLD) from Glasgow University.{{cite book |title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 |volume=2 |page=554 |date=July 2006 |publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh |isbn=0-902-198-84-X |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf |access-date=25 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
In 1966, he left Duns to become deputy curator of the Hancock Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He died at home in Tweedmouth on 13 March 1999.
Publications
- Hitherto (1996) (autobiography)
Family
He married Gladys Hunt in 1942. They had two children, Jean and David.
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Category:Scientists from Lancashire
Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester
Category:British palaeontologists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:People from the Borough of Fylde
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