Albert Seward

Sir Albert Charles Seward, known as Albert Seward, was a British botanist and geologist specializing in palaeobotany, born October 9, 1863, in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, who died April 11, 1941, in Oxford, England, and whose extensive studies of Mesozoic palaeobotany, including the floras of the Wealden and Jurassic periods and their implications for past climate, earned him election to the Royal Society at the age of thirty five; he also published an analysis of floral carvings at Southwell Minster in 1935 and served as joint editor of More Letters of Charles Darwin in 1903. He served as lecturer in botany at Cambridge University from 1890 to 1906, professor of botany there from 1906 to 1936, and Master of Downing College, Cambridge, from 1915 to 1936. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898, won the Murchison Medal in 1908, the Royal Medal in 1925, the Darwin Medal in 1934, was knighted in 1936, served as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1939, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1930.