Stan Woodell Explained

Stan Woodell (1928 – 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.^[1]

Stanley Reginald John Woodell was born in Shepherd's Bush, London.

He obtained a degree in Botany from Durham University. An undergraduate at Hatfield College, Woodell was a member of the Durham University Exploration Society.^[2] He studied the pollination biology of the genus Primula for his PhD at the same university.

Career

Woodell was a King George VI Fellow at North Carolina State University (1956–57).^[3] He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.

As a botanist, Woodell co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire published in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.^[4]

Woodell died aged 75. A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.^[5]

External links

• Oxford University Gazette notice
• Wolfson College notice

Notes and References

1. J. Steel and A.W. McDonald, Stanley Woodell 1928 – 2004.
2. Expedition to Eire, 1955 . Durham University Gazette . 7 December 1955 . 3 (New Series) . 2 . 10 .
3. The Master's Notebook . Hatfield Record . Autumn 1957 . II . 8 . 135 . 9 December 2023.
4. John Killick, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell, Flora of Oxfordshire (Pisces Publications, 1998,).
5. Memorial Tree Planting, Wolfson College news, Oxford.