Collection GR - Gordon Rowley Collection

Extent: 1 box

Photographs and Slides. Paperwork.

Admin History: Gordon Douglas Rowley (31 July 1921–2019) was a British botanist and writer specialising in cacti and other succulents. From 1948 to 1961 Rowley was employed at the John Innes Horticultural Institution, then based at Merton Park curating the National Rose Species Collection and subsequently all the plant collections. From 1961 to 1981 he was lecturer in Horticultural Botany at the University of Reading. He undertook several research trips to Africa, the USA and Mexico. From 1966 to 1976 he was President of the African Succulent Plant Society and from 1983 President of the British Cactus and Succulent Society. For several years he was also the editor of the magazine Bradleya.