David Ellis (botanist)

Prof David Ellis FRSE (1874-1937) was a Scottish bacteriologist, botanist and baker (a very odd and diverse range of skills). He was an academic author in all three fields.

Life

He was born in Aberystwyth in north Wales on 9 June 1874. He attended the University College of Wales 1890-96.[1]

From 1896 to 1898 he was Science Master at the County School in Aberystwyth.[2] He then went to the University of London gaining a doctorate (DSc) before going to Marburg University where he gained a second doctorate (PhD).[3] In 1904 he became a Lecturer in Botany and Bacteriology at the West of Scotland Technical College.

In 1906 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh His proposers were Sir David Paulin, George Alexander Gibson, Sir Arthur Mitchell and James Chatham. [4]

In later life he lived at 10 Spring Gardens in Kelvinside in Glasgow.[5]

In 1920 he became Superintendent of the Scottish School of Bakery. And from 1925 until death was Professor of Bacteriology at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow. In December 1925 he appears to have made an early radio broadcast entitled “Why we Attribute Life to Plants”.

He died in Bearsden in Glasgow on 16 January 1937.

Publications

The standard author abbreviation D.Ellis is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

Family

In 1906 he married Jeannie W. Muckart.

References

  1. ↑ http://strathclyde.ica-atom.org/ellis-david-1874-1937-professor-of-bacteriology
  2. ↑ Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, Ray Desmond
  3. ↑ http://strathclyde.ica-atom.org/ellis-david-1874-1937-professor-of-bacteriology
  4. ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  5. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1910-11
  6. ↑ IPNI.  D.Ellis.
  7. ↑ Culinary Landmarks: A History of Canadian Cookbooks 1825-1949
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