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Eric Vernon Watson was born on 1914, is a British bryologist. Discover Eric Vernon Watson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?
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He developed an interest in Bryology at Edinburgh, helped by William Young (1865-1947), Keeper of the bryological herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden.
Eric Vernon Watson (1914-1999) was a British bryologist.
Watson was born 12 May 1914 in Cranleigh, Surrey, the second of three brothers.
His younger brother, Donald (1918-2005) was a Scottish ornithologist and a wildlife artist.
His father, James George Watson, was a Scottish banker and financial manager who was away in Africa, so he was raised largely by his mother, Mary Vernon.
Eric attended Cranleigh School with his brothers, but in 1931, when his father died, the family moved to Edinburgh and Eric went to Edinburgh University to read Botany (B.Sc. in 1935).
He stayed on at Edinburgh to take a Ph.D. studying under Prof Sir William Wright Smith.
Eric together with his brother Donald were among the first members of the newly founded Scottish Ornithologists' Club in 1933.
Eric and Donald helped to set up a bird observatory on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth, and Eric assisted in building the first ‘Heligoland trap’ for catching and ringing migrant birds.
He obtained his Ph.D. in 1938, his thesis "Studies in the anatomy of anomalous monocotyledons" winning him the Hutton Balfour prize for Botany.
After Edinburgh he then worked (1938-9) at Liverpool University as a demonstrator, which is where he met his future wife, Joyce Edwards (1920-2009).
In 1939 he took a Commonwealth Fellowship at Harvard for two years, returning as senior lecturer at Harper Adams Agricultural College, Newport, Shropshire (1941-46).
He and Joyce were married in 1944 in Ulverston, and had four daughters.
He joined the staff at the University of Reading in 1946 as a lecturer, later senior lecturer, until he retired in 1979.
He would lead bryophyte forays and was also a keen ornithologist, being a founder member of the Reading Bird Club, gardener, golfer, and watercolour artist, exhibiting at the Reading Guild of Artists.
He joined the British Bryological Society in 1946, became its president in 1964 and then became an honorary member.
He was a member of the Botanical Society of the British Isles for almost 50 years.
His book "British Mosses and Liverworts", which went into three editions, was for many years the standard work on the bryophyte flora for the British Isles.
His second book "Structure and Life of Bryophytes", which also went into three editions, introduced the morphology of mosses and liverworts.
He died at his home in Goring from Leukemia, 25 October 1999.
His personal bryophyte collection was left to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
