Colin Cadman
{{Short description|Scottish botanist (1916–1971)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Colin Cadman
| honorific_suffix = FRSE
| birth_date = 16 July 1916
| birth_place = Glasgow
| nationality = Scottish
| death_date = 27 September 1971
| death_place = Edinburgh
| field = Botany
}}
Dr Colin Houghton Cadman FRSE (16 July 1916 – 27 September 1971) was a Scottish botanist who served as Director of the Scottish Horticultural Institute 1956 to 1971. He specialised in plant pathology, with a detailed knowledge relating to raspberries. He was also President of the Association of Applied Mycologists in 1971{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&dq=colin+cadman+1971&pg=PA126|title=Dictionary of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including ...|accessdate=2015-07-29|isbn=9780850668438|last1=Desmond|first1=Ray|date=1994-02-25|publisher=CRC Press }} and President of the Association of Applied Biologists from 1969 to 1970.Geoffrey C. Ainsworth. [http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/Assets/Printed_documents/my_reprints/1996_WebsterMoore_Ainsworths-Brief-Biographies-British-Mycologists.pdf Brief Biographies of British Mycologists] (John Webster, David Moore, eds.), p. 35 (British Mycological Society; 1996) ({{isbn|0952770407}})
Life
He was born in Glasgow on 16 July 1916.{{cite web|url=http://openagricola.nal.usda.gov/Record/CAIN729047201|title=Colin Houghton Cadman; 16 July 1916 – 27 September 1971.|work=Usda.gov|accessdate=2015-07-29}} He studied at the University of Liverpool, and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1940.{{Cite journal|last=Cadman|first=C. H.|date=November 1940|title=Genetical studies on the interrelationships of certain viruses causing necrosis in the potato|website=Edinburgh Research Archive|postscript=; Ph.D. thesis|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/29027|language=en}}
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950 one of his proposers being Sir William Wright Smith.{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh : 1783-2002 |publisher=Royalsoced.org.uk |accessdate=2015-07-29 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead }}
He lectured in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Dundee.{{cite web|url=http://arccat.dundee.ac.uk/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=(RefNo='UR-SF')&dsqPos=0 |title=University of Dundee Archive Services | The Main Catalogue |publisher=Arccat.dundee.ac.uk |accessdate=2015-07-29}}
He died in Edinburgh on 27 September 1971 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery.
Family
He was unmarried and had no children.{{cite book |last1=Edinburgh |first1=Royal Society of |title=Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=1971 |publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh. |page=35 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NztGAQAAIAAJ&q=botanist+%22Colin+Cadman%22+%22unmarried%22 |language=en}}
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Category:People associated with Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool
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