Borthwick, Albert William ♂
Education
Student United College 1889-1890 Math. 1; Bot. 1890-1891 N. Phil.; Chem. 1891-1892 Math. 1; N. Hist.; Bot. 1892-1893 Math.; Chem.; Physiol. 1893-1894 N. Phil.; N. Hist.; Physiol.; Bot. 1894-1895 Physiol. Foundation bursar, 1893. B.Sc. 29.3.1895. D.Sc. 29.3.1904.
Birth/childhood
Born 16.10.1872 son of William Henry Borthwick of Crookston and Borthwick Castle and Rebecca Cathcart.
Career
Lecturer in Forest Botany, Edinburgh University 1908 -1914. Chief research officer, Forestry Commission 1919 -1926. Professor of Forestry, Aberdeen University 1926 - 19.4.1937 (died).[University lecturer, university professor]
O.B.E. [Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]
Publications
Two papers from the Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, by A.W. Borthwick (Edinburgh: Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1899), University of St Andrews Library, StA QK81.S2;3.
Death
[Died 19.4.1937.]
Sources
- UYUC400:13.10.1893
- Aberdeen University Review 24 1936-37 226
- R. Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (London, 1977) p76
- Burke, Landed Gentry