Harold Wager Explained

Harold William Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862  - 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist.^[1] He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904.^{[2] [3]} He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1910^[4] and again in 1919.^[5]

Wager was first a lecturer in botany at the Yorkshire College, then at Victoria University, then later he took the role of an Inspector of Schools for the Board of Education.^[6]

Notes and References

1. obit. Dr. Harold Wager, F.R.S.. Nature. 21 Dec 1929. 124. 953–954. 10.1038/124953a0. 3138. free.
2. WAGER, Harold W. T.. Who's Who. 1907. 59. 1812.
3. Web site: Wager; Harold William Taylor (1862–1929). 4 March 2011.
4. Book: Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists. Desmond, Ray. 1994. 708. 0-85066-843-3.
5. Presidential address. The significance of sex and nuclear fusion in the fungi.. Trans. British Mycol. Soc.. 6. 1920. 305–17.
6. Web site: Certificates of Election and Candidature. 4 March 2011.