John William Heslop-Harrison
John William Heslop Harrison, FRS, (1881–1967), was Professor of Botany at King's College, Durham (now the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), now perhaps best remembered for an alleged academic fraud.
Heslop Harrison, an established academic and Fellow of the Royal Society, was in 1948 accused by John Raven, a Cambridge University classics tutor, of making false claims to have discovered certain plant species on the Isle of Rum on the west coast of Scotland. Whether or not such grasses were on Rum is pivotal to a theory that the islands escaped the last ice age. The fraud claim is described — and its veracity supported — in Karl Sabbagh's book, A Rum Affair. Recently more proof about forgeries committed by Heslop-Harrison emerged.
Heslop Harrison's fourth son was Jack Heslop-Harrison who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1970.
The standard author abbreviation Hesl.-Harr. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.Read more about John William Heslop-Harrison: Biographies
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