Royal Society
Professor Harry Marshall Ward (1854-1906), botanist. Ward studied at the South Kensington Science and Art Department under Thomas Henry Huxley in 1874, before attending Christ Church College Cambridge in 1876. His time there was funded by a wealthy fellow student, Louis Lucas, and in 1879 Ward graduated with a 1st class Honours degree in Natural Sciences. Between 1880 and 1882, the British Government sent him to Ceylon to study the coffee rust disease which was affecting the island’s plantations. This work established his reputation as a plant pathologist. In 1885 Ward was appointed Professor of Botany a the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill. In 1886 he became a Fellow of the Linnaean Society and in the following year a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society. In 1889 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1895 was appointed Professor of Botany at Cambridge University.
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