Arthur Edward Wade
British lichenologist (1895-1989)
Arthur Wade was a botanist and lichenologist. He was Deputy Curator in the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Wales from 1920 until 1961. He was president of the British Lichen Society from 1964 until 1966.
Early life, education and personal life
Arthur Wade was born in Leicester on 22 November 1895. He attended a grammar school in Leicester and then the local technical college. He became interested in botany as a child and organised collections of wild plants that he had pressed to preserve. This enthusiasm was supported by the botany curator at Leicester Museum, A. R. Horwood, and Wade worked informally with him after leaving school. In 1915 he became a member of the Botanical Exchange Club (which later became the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland).
In 1917 he and Florence Annie Elizabeth Woods (died 1961) married. In 1981 he emigrated to be with family in New Zealand.
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