Albert George Long
Dr Albert George Long FRSE LLD (1915–1999) was a British educator and palaeobotanist. He was an expert on the Lower Carboniferous period. He was creator of the Cupule-Carpel Theory.
Life[]
He was born in Inskip, Lancashire on 28 January 1915 the son of Rev Albert James Long (died 1940), a Baptist minister, and his wife, Isabel Amblet (died 1960). He attended school in Todmorden. As a schoolboy he was shot in the left foot and relied on a medical boot to walk, walking with a permanent limp. He then studied Science at Manchester University under Prof William Henry Lang.[1] He then underwent training as a teacher, and initially took a post at Lewes in Sussex.
In 1945 he began teaching Science at Berwickshire High School in Duns in the Scottish Borders. In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were , John Walton, and Claude Wardlaw. Unusually he won the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for the period 1958 to 1960, prior to being made a Fellow. In 1966 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc) from his alma mater and in 1967 a second honorary doctorate (LLD) from Glasgow University.[2]
In 1966 he left Duns to become Deputy Curator of the Hancock Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He died at home in Tweedmouth on 13 March 1999.
Publications[]
- Hitherto (1996) (autobiography)
Family[]
He married Gladys Hunt in 1942. They had two children, Jean and David.
References[]
- ^ "ALBERT GEORGE LONG" (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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