Charles Edward Foister

Dr Charles Edward Foister FRSE (17 August 1903–23 July 1989) was a British botanist and plant pathologist. He was Director of Scottish Agricultural Scientific Services in Edinburgh from 1957. He specialised in lichens and fungi.[1]

Charles Edwarrd Foister
Born(1903-08-17)17 August 1903
Cambridge, England
Died23 July 1989(1989-07-23) (aged 85)
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
OccupationBotanist, plant pathologist

Life

He was born in Cambridge in England on 17 August 1903, the son of Frederick W Foister and his wife Esther Elizabeth Smith.[2] He was educated locally and won a place at the University of Cambridge graduating with a BA in 1925. He continued as a postgraduate taking a Diploma in Agricultural Science (1927). He later received a doctorate (PhD) from the University of Edinburgh in 1931.[3]

He was employed as a plant pathologist in eastern Edinburgh for all of his working life. He became the official plant pathologist for the UK in 1938.[4] He was an active member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.

In 1954 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Wright Smith, Stephen J Watson, Malcolm Wilson and Alexander Nelson.[5]

He died at Colchester in Essex on 23 July 1989.

He never married and was presumed homosexual.

Publications
  • The Relationship of Weather to Fungus and Bacterial Diseases (1935)
  • Descriptions of New Fungi Causing Economic Diseases in Scotland (1940)
  • Dry Rot Disease of Potato (1952)
  • Mrs N L Alcock (1972)

References
  1. "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries". kiki.huh.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  2. "Charles Edward Foister". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. Foister, Charles Edward (1931). "Researches on two diseases of economic plants caused by phytophthora species". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. The London Gazette 8 April 1938
  5. 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.
  6. IPNI.  Foister.



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