Ronald William John Keay

Ronald William John Keay
CBE[1]
Born20 May 1920
Richmond Surrey, London, England [2]
Died7 April 1998(1998-04-07) (aged 77)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Keay

Ronald William John Keay (20 May 1920 – 7 April 1998) was a British botanist, who did much of his work in tropical Africa.[3]

Keay was educated at the University of Oxford.[1] He was an expert in West African forest flora working at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and at the Forest Herbarium Ibadan (FHI), part of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), and was director of that institute from 1960 to 1962.[2][1] He collected specimens in Rhodesia, Nigeria, West Cameroon, the Congo, Rhodesia and Zambia.[4]

During the 1970s and '80s he was a member, council member, treasurer and vice president of the Royal Society. After his retirement from the Royal Society he served as president of the Institute of Biology and also the treasurer of the Linnean Society of London.[5]

  1. ^ a b c Kemp, R.; Osmaston, H.; Webster, G.; Karani, P.; Sizomu-Kagolo, M. (1998). "Association Affairs Obituaries:Ronald William John Keay CBE". The Commonwealth Forestry Review. 77 (3): 238–240. JSTOR 42608687.
  2. ^ a b Keay, Ronald William John (1920-1998) JSTOR Plants
  3. ^ Keay, Ronald William John (1920-1998). BnF (Bibliotheque Nationale de France).
  4. ^ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Ronald William John Keay". kiki.huh.harvard.edu. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  5. ^ Marsden, J. (1998). "Obituary: Ronald Keay" (PDF). The Linnean. 14 (2): 52–53. Retrieved 5 February 2020.