David Allardice Webb
Born(1912-08-12)12 August 1912
Dublin, Ireland
Died26 September 1994(1994-09-26) (aged 82)
Oxford, England
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsTrinity College Dublin

David Allardice Webb (12 August 1912 – 26 September 1994) was an Irish botanist and chair of botany at Trinity College, Dublin from 1949 to 1966. He was son of George and Dr Ella Webb. In Ireland he had studied under Henry Horatio Dixon and also studied in the United Kingdom. In addition to botany he edited a history of Trinity College with R. B. McDowell and published a book on the history of art in Trinity College.[1] In 1982 he received the Boyle Medal of the Royal Dublin Society.[2] His botanical specialties included his work as a leading taxonomist of Saxifraga. He died in a car accident on his way to the University of Reading's herbarium.[3] The eighth edition of An Irish Flora was renamed Webb's An Irish Flora in his honour.[4]

The standard author abbreviation D.A.Webb is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Trinity College, Dublin on David Webb
  2. ^ Boyle Medal Laureates Archived 2 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine Royal Dublin Society
  3. ^ Herbarium RNG
  4. ^ "Trinity College, Dublin site". Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  D.A.Webb.