Max Walters, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Max Walters

English botanist and conscientious objector

Date of Birth: 23-May-1920

Place of Birth: Oughtibridge, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Dec-2005

Profession: botanist, conscientious objection

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Max Walters

  • Stuart Max Walters (born Oughtibridge, Sheffield, Yorkshire 23 May 1920 – died Grantchester, Cambridgeshire 11 December 2005) was a British botanist and academic.
  • As a conscientious objector in the Second World War, he worked as a hospital orderly in Sheffield and Bristol.
  • He was Curator of the Herbarium, Botany School, University of Cambridge 1949-73, Lecturer in Botany 1962-73, and for the ten years up until his retirement, 1973–83, Director of the University Botanic Garden in Cambridge, of which he wrote a history.
  • He was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge 1948-51 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1964-84. He was the author of numerous books on plants and flowers, most notably the 1964 Atlas of the British Flora (with Franklyn Perring) and as a co-editor of Flora Europaea.
  • He wrote two well-known books for the New Naturalist library, Wild Flowers (1954, co-written with John Gilmour) and Mountain Flowers (1956, with John Raven).
  • He was much involved in the research and management of Wicken Fen.
  • After his retirement, he wrote a biography of Darwin's teacher and friend, John Stevens Henslow, Darwin's mentor (2001). Walters was a committed Christian who was much involved both in the local life of the Church of England (he was a churchwarden at Grantchester for many years) and in the application of Christian principles to national and social life: he was a Christian socialist and also a Christian pacifist, and as such was a leading member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and also active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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