|
1871 |
Born 15 August, 33 Regent Square, London, to
George and Amelia (née Lawrence). George
taught at the Working Men’s College, Gt.
Ormond St. |
|
1883 |
Preparatory School, Worthing, Sussex |
|
1886 |
Highgate School, London |
|
1889 |
Studied for the Intermediate Science examination,
University College, London (UCL) |
|
1890 |
Natural Sciences Tripos, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Part I 1893, Part II 1894 (botany with zoology
subsidiary) |
|
1893-1906 |
Assistant professor of Botany, UCL. Assisted
Professor FW Oliver with studies of coastal vegetation. |
|
1900 |
Visited Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Malay peninsula
and Egypt |
|
1902 |
Founded the New Phytologist, which
he edited until 1931 |
|
1903 |
Married Edith Chick, 30 August at Branscombe,
nr. Honiton, Devon |
|
1904 |
Daughter Katharine born. Founded the Central
Committee for the Survey and Study of British
Vegetation (= British Vegetation Committee). Committee
members formed the first Council of the British
Ecological Society (BES) in 1913. |
|
1905 |
Daughter Margaret born (3rd daughter, Helen,
born ???) |
|
1907 |
Lecturer in botany, University of Cambridge
until 1923 |
|
1911 |
Organised the first International Phytogeographic
Excursion |
|
1913 |
First President of the British Ecological
Society (BES), founded 12 April |
|
1915 |
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society |
|
1917 |
Editor of Journal of Ecology until
1937 |
|
1920 |
Published The New Psychology in Relation
to Life |
|
1922 |
Visited Sigmund Freud in Vienna |
|
1923 |
President Botanical Section, K, British Association
for the Advancement of Science. Resigned University
lectureship and moved his family to Vienna. Studied
under Freud. |
|
1924 |
Returned to his home in Grantchester, Cambridge.
At the Imperial Botanical Congress, was made Chairman
of the British Empire Vegetation Committee. |
|
1927 |
Appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany,
University of Oxford |
|
1937 |
Retired to Grantchester |
|
1938 |
President of BES (second term) |
|
1941 |
Awarded Gold Medal of the Linnean Society |
|
1942 |
Appointed chair of the BES’s new committee
on ‘Nature Conservation and Nature Reserves’
|
|
1945 |
Vice-chair and chair of the government’s
Wild Life Conservation Special Committee (associated
with the ‘Hobhouse Committee’ exploring
the establishment of National Parks). Recommended
formation of the Nature Conservancy, which should
establish National Nature Reserves. |
|
1947 |
President of the Council for the Promotion
of Field Studies (= Field Studies Council) until
1953 |
|
1949 |
Chairman of the new Nature Conservancy (which
later evolved into the Natural Environment Research
Council) |
|
1950 |
Knighted |
|
1955 |
Died 25 November at Grantchester (Edith died
1970) |
