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Michael Charles Faraday Proctor PhD (21 January 1929 24 October 2017) was an English botanist and plant ecologist, lecturer, scientific author based at the University of Exeter.[1][2][3] He retired from his post as Reader in Plant Ecology at Exeter University in 1994.[4]

M.C.F. Proctor published more than 100 research papers,[5] and was regarded as one of Britain's pre-eminent plant ecologists.[6][7] In 1968 he revised and updated Arthur Tansley's book 'Britain's Green Mantle'.[8] He was a contributing author to all of the five volumes of the definitive work on British Plant Communities, edited by J.Rodwell (1991-2000), and also wrote three books in the New Naturalist Series: two on pollination, and one on the vegetation of Britain and Ireland.


Academic career


Proctor studied botany, zoology and chemistry for his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University,[9] then did research on rock-roses (Helianthemum).[9] In 1956 he published a significant work on the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire, which embodied "the accumulation of Cambridgeshire bryophyte records begun by Prof. P.W. Richards in 1927".[10] Proctor’s flora set out the history of bryophyte recording in the vice-county of Cambridgeshire and provided a guide to the main habitats.[11] It was the first detailed account of the bryophytes of that county since 1820, when the third edition of Relhan’s Flora Cantabrigiensis was published.[10]

Proctor's interest in insects and pollination ecology dated from his student days, shared with Peter Yeo at Cambridge, and with whom he remained a life-long friend.[12][1] After leaving Cambridge, Proctor was employed by the Nature Conservancy in North Wales for two years,[9] before joining the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter in November 1956[13] where he taught botany and ecology until retiring in September 1994.[9] His main research interests have included distribution and ecophysiology of bryophytes,[14] especially with reference to the Dartmoor oakwoods such as Wistman's Wood; the vegetation and water chemistry of blanket bogs and mires,[14] plus the distribution, ecology and physiology of the filmy ferns, Hymenophyllum tunbrigense and H. wilsonii.[14]

Proctor was editor of Watsonia, the journal of the then Botanical Society of the British Isles from April 1961 to July 1971.[15][16]


Honours and recognition


Proctor was a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences[9][17] as well as being an honorary member of the Hungarian Society for Plant Physiology.[9][18] He was also a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society,[9][19] a founder member of the Devon Wildlife Trust,[9] and between 1969 and 1981 he was a trustee of Paignton Zoo, and was reappointed trustee again in 1991.[9]

His contribution to botany and to the study of Whitebeam (Sorbus spp) in particular is honoured in the naming of a species of hybrid Rowan, of which only one plant is known to exist in the wild.[20] Proctor’s Rowan (Sorbus x proctoris T.Rich) has Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.) and Sichuan Rowan (S. scalaris Koehne) as its parents and was discovered in the Avon Gorge.[20]

The standard author abbreviation M.Proctor is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[21]


Selected publications



References


  1. Marren, Peter (15 November 2017). "Michael Proctor obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. Michael Charles Faraday
  3. "Dr Michael Proctor Honorary Research Fellow". University of Exeter. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  4. "University of Exeter Fellow publishes third contribution to prestigious New Naturalist series". University of Exeter. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  5. "Michael Charles Faraday Proctor, University of Exeter,, Exeter". ResearchGate. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  6. "Vegetation of Britain and Ireland (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 122)". bol.com. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  7. Lack, Andrew. "Book Review: Vegetation Of Britain & Ireland (New Naturalist)". British Trust for Ornithology. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  8. Tansley, Arthur (1968). Proctor, Michael (ed.). Britain's Green Mantle: Past, Present and Future (2nd ed.). London: George Allen & Unwin.
  9. "MICHAEL PROCTOR". Paignton Zoo. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  10. Preston, C.D. "Additions to the bryophyte flora of Cambridgeshire (v.c. 29) in the last 50 years" (PDF). British Bryological Society. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  11. "Vice-county 29". British Bryological Society. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  12. "Michael Proctor". OverDrive. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  13. "Michael Charles Faraday Proctor: Info". ResearchGate. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  14. "Dartmoor National Park, Completed Research: M C F Proctor". Dartmoor National Park. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  15. "Journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles". Watsonia. 4 (6). April 1961. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  16. "Journal of the Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles". Watsonia. 8 (4). July 1971. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  17. "Group 5: Biology The Natural Sciences Division". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  18. Erdei, László (2011). "The past three decades of plant physiology in Hungary" (PDF). Acta Biologica Szegediensis. 55 (1): 48. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  19. "Mr John Bebbington". The Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  20. Rich, T.C.G.; Harris, S.A.; Hiscock, S.J. (2009). "Five new Sorbus (Rosaceae) taxa from the Avon Gorge, England" (PDF). Watsonia. 27: 217–228. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  21. IPNI.  M.Proctor.



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