| Charles Edward Foister | |
| Birth Date: | 1903 8, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Cambridge, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | University of Cambridge |
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]
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.