Harry Allan
For other people named Harry Allan, see Harry Allan (disambiguation).
Harry Howard Barton Allan CBE (27 April 1882 – 29 October 1957) was a New Zealand teacher, botanist, scientific administrator and writer.
Allan was born on 27 April 1882 in Nelson,[1] and was educated at Nelson College,[2] and Auckland University College, from where he graduated MA in 1908.[1] For his lengthy botanical study of Mount Peel, he was awarded a Doctor of Science in 1923.[1]
In the 1948 King's Birthday Honours Allan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to botany in New Zealand.[3]
Bibliography
- ——; Lucy B. Moore; Elizabeth Edgar; Arthur John Healy (1961). Flora of New Zealand: Indigenous tracheophyta : monocotyledones except Gramineae. R.E. Owen, Govt. printer.
References
- 1 2 3 Galbreath, Ross. "Harry Howard Barton Allan". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38312. p. 3398. 10 June 1948. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ↑ IPNI. Allan.
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