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David H. Valentine

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British botanist

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According to Wikipedia, David Henriques Valentine was a British botanist and plant taxonomist. Early career Valentine was born in Higher Broughton, Salford, 16 February 1912, elder child of Emmanuel Henriques Valentine and his wife Dora Deborah Valentine née Besso. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in Natural Sciences. His doctorate was in plant physiology after which, in 1936, his interests shifted to taxonomy and he was appointed Curator of the Herbarium at the Botany School of the university. In 1938 he became a Fellow of St. John's.

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