David Clouston

Dr David Clouston FRSE (13 December 1871–18 April 1948) was a Scottish agriculturalist, horticulturalist and author. He served as Agricultural Advisor to India from 1923 to 1929. His expertise lay especially in the subject of grasses.

Life

He was born on Orkney on 13 December 1871.

He studied agriculture to postgraduate level at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his D.Sc. in 1935.[1]

In 1932 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers were James Drever, Sir William Wright Smith, Ernest Shearer and Sir Thomas Henry Holland.[2][3]

He died in St Ola on Orkney on 18 April 1948.

Publications

See[4]

  • Lessons on Indian Agriculture (1920)
  • Identification of Grasses in Non-flowering Condition
  • Plant Diseases of the Garden (1932)
  • From the Orcades to Ind (1936)
  • The Establishment and Care of Fine Turf for Lawns and Sports Grounds (1939)
  • The Story of the Orkney and Zetland Association (1946)

References
  1. Clouston, David (1935). "The identification of grasses by leaf anatomy". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
  3. Nature Magazine: 12 March 1932
  4. "David Clouston". Amazon. Retrieved 18 February 2018.


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