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Frederick Orpen Bower

{{Short description|English botanist (1855–1948)}}

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Frederick Orpen Bower FRSE FRS{{Cite journal | last1 = Lang | first1 = W. H. | author-link = William Henry Lang| title = Fredrick Orpen Bower. 1855-1948 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1949.0002 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 6 | issue = 18 | pages = 346–374 | year = 1949 | jstor = 768929| s2cid = 162245715 }} (4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948) was an English botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938.W. H. Lang, ‘Bower, Frederick Orpen (1855–1948)’, rev. Thomas Junker, {{Cite ODNB | title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/31999 | year = 2004 | pmid = | pmc = }} He was president of the British Association in 1929–1930.[https://archive.org/stream/reportofbritisha31adva#page/n43/mode/2up Presidential Address to the British Association Meeting, held at Bristol in 1930]

Life

Bower was born in Ripon in Yorkshire the son of Abraham Bower and Cornelia Morris, sister of the eminent botanist, Francis Orpen Morris. He was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire before studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1877.

In 1880, he acquired a position as assistant lecturer in botany at University College, London under Thomas Huxley.{{Cite web | url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/76149/Frederick-Orpen-Bower | title=Frederick Orpen Bower | English botanist}} In 1882, he moved to South Kensington as a full Lecturer in botany. During this period he spent time at Kew Gardens studying with Dukinfield Henry Scott. In 1885, he was awarded the chair in botany at the University of Glasgow, and was a professor there until 1925.

Bower never married. When he retired he returned to Ripon, and died there in April 1948.

Memberships

Honours and awards

  • He was elected president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh for 1893–95.{{cite book|url=http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/%20.pdf|title=THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1836-1936|page=15|access-date=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311205404/http://www.botanical-society-scotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/%20.pdf|archive-date=11 March 2017|url-status=dead}}
  • He served as vice president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1910 to 1916 and president from 1919 to 1924, receiving the Neill Prize in 1925.{{Cite book |url=https://rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RSE-Fellows-BiographicalIndex-2.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 2 (K–Z) |author=C D Waterston |author2=A Macmillan Shearer |website=Royal Society of Edinburgh |isbn=090219884X |date=July 2006 |access-date=13 February 2022}}

Publications

  • Practical Botany for Beginners (1894)
  • The Origin of a Land Flora (1908)
  • Plant Life of Land (1911)
  • The Ferns 3 vols. (1923–28)
  • Plants and Man (1925)
  • Size and Form in Plants (1930)
  • Primitive Land Plants (1935)
  • Sixty Years of Botany in Britain, 1875-1935 (1938){{Cite web |url=http://www.gashe.ac.uk:443/public_docs/isaar/P0001.html |title=Bower, Frederick Orpen, 1855-1948, botanist |access-date=4 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115060627/http://www.gashe.ac.uk:443/public_docs/isaar/P0001.html |archive-date=15 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}

Archives

The archives for Frederick Orpen Bower are maintained by the Archives of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).

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References

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External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060512003026/http://www.nahste.ac.uk/cgi-bin/view_isad.pl?id=GB-0248-DC-002&view=basic NAHSTE: Papers of Frederick Orpen Bower] at www.nahste.ac.uk

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Category:1855 births

Category:1948 deaths

Category:English botanists

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society

Category:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London

Category:Royal Medal winners

Category:Presidents of the British Science Association

Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Category:Presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences

Category:Foreign fellows of the Indian National Science Academy

Category:Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin