Eric Frederic Drabble
Born1877
Hasland, Derbyshire
Died3 August 1933(1933-08-03) (aged 55–56)
Totland Bay near Freshwater, Isle of Wight
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Drabble

Eric Frederic Drabble FLS (1877–1933) was a British botanist and leading authority on British Viola.[1]

Drabble was a lecturer in botany at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1901 to 1903. In 1903 he graduated with a DSc from the University of London. He was a lecturer from 1903 to 1905 at the Royal College of Science. He then moved to Liverpool University where he was a lecturer from 1905 to 1906;[1] there Drabble and Leo Farmar were the two members of the economic botany section of the scientific staff of Liverpool University's Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics.[2] Drabble was a lecturer at Northern Polytechnic Institute from 1906 to 1924.[1]

In 1906 Drabble married Hilda Lake (1881–1965), a daughter of Thomas Henry Lake, who was a miller and corn merchant in Truro.[3] Before their marriage, Eric and Hilda collected botanical specimens together. As a married couple, they jointly published a number of papers, sometimes with other co-authors.[4] When Eric Drabble died in 1933, his estate was valued at £6,387.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. CRC Press. pp. 215–216. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8.
  2. ↑ Evans, A. E. (1906). A Catalogue of the Aburi Gardens: Being a Complete List of All the Plants Grown in the Government Botanical Gardens at Aburi, Gold Coast, West Africa, Together with Their PA Catalogue of the Aburi Gardens: Being a Complete List of All the Plants Grown in the Government Botanical Gardens at Aburi, Gold Coast, West Africa, Together with Their Popular Or Local Names, Uses, Habits, and Habitats. At the Offices of the Institute, 1906. p. ii.
  3. 1 2 Lawley, Mark. "Members of the Moss Exchange Club (1896–1923) and British Bryological Society (1923–1943)". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ Long, Vicky; Marland, Hilary; Freedman, Robert B. (August 2009). "Female contributors to the Biochemical Journal from 1906 to 1939: women at the dawn of British biochemistry" (PDF). The Biochemical Journal. 31 (4): 50–52.
  5. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Drabble.
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