John Arthur Edwards
John Arthur Edwards is a British botanist, mountaineer and humanist.
Life and career[edit]
He was born at Smithdown Road Hospital in Liverpool and educated at Dovedale Primary School and a local Baptist church. Having passed his eleven-plus exam, he attended Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool from September 1958, the year after John Lennon left, until 1964. After passing his O and A-level examinations he went on to read botany, zoology and geology at Aberystwyth University. In 1967 he joined the British Antarctic Survey as a contract botanist,[1] studying the two native Antarctic flowering plants on Signy Island[2] [3][4]for 3 summers and a winter.
During this period he was one of a party of four that made first ascents of the Sandefjord Peaks after an overland sledge journey on Coronation Island.[5] He also accidentally introduced a species of flightless midge 'Eretmoptera murphyi’[6][7]and an enchytraeid worm ’Christensenidrilus blocki’, [8][9]into an area at the foot of Factory Bluffs, close to Signy Research Station during some angiosperm transplant experiments.
He returned to the United Kingdom in 1970 to work up his results under Dr Stanley Greene at Winterbourne Botanic Garden. He married in 1972 and his wife Carol gave birth to a son in 1981. Ian developed cancer and predeceased them in 2010, as a result of which a charity was set up in his memory[10][11] [12]
In 1974 Edwards started teaching at Handsworth Technical College, now part of South and City College Birmingham then at Cadbury Sixth Form College from 1989 to 2003. An atheist, he joined Birmingham Humanists in 1984 and for several years was editor of their newsletters, before serving as treasurer for 11 years. He was also a keen member of West Bromwich Mountaineering Club, editing their monthly newsletter for 3 years before becoming Chairman from 2005 to 2008. During the early part of the millennium he climbed Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus and Mt Toubkal with WBMC plus Lakpa Ri during this period. He revisited the Antarctic in 2000 and again in 2015 with the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust voyage ‘South 2015’, a voyage to remember the Britons who died in British Antarctic Territory in the pursuit of science since 1948. [13][14]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Fuchs, Sir Vivian (1982). “Of Ice and Men”, p 362 Anthony Nelson, Oswestry. ISBN 0-904614-06-9 Search this book on
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- ↑ Edward, John (1972). "Studies in 'Colobanthus quitensis' and 'Deschampsia antarctica': V. Distribution,Ecology and Vegetative Performance on Signy Island" (PDF). British Antarctic SurveyBulletin No 28, 11-28. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ Edward, John (1974). "Studies in 'Colobanthus quitensis' and 'Deschampsia antarctica': VI. Reproductive Performance on Signy Island" (PDF). British Antarctic SurveyBulletin No 39, 67-86. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ Edwards John, & R.I. Lewis Smith (1988). "Photosynthesis and Repiration of 'Colobanthus quitensis' and 'Deschampsia antarctica' from the Maritime Antarctic" (PDF). British Antarctic SurveyBulletin No 81, 43-63. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ Gildea, Damien(2010). “Mountaineering in Antarctica:Climbing in the Frozen South”, p 51 Editions Nevicata, Brussels. ISBN 978-2-87523-006-5 Search this book on .
- ↑ Bartlett, Jessamine (19 December 2019). "When 'alien' insects attack Antarctica". British Ecological Society. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ Edwards, John (May 2015). "My Antarctic Research in a Nutshell". British Antarctic Survey Club Magazine No 73. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ Bartlett, Jessamine, and John Edwards (7 April 2019). "Aliens in Antarctica". Ecological Society of America. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ Kevin A Hughes, and M. Roger Worland (2010). "Spatial distribution, habitat preference and colonization status of two alien terrestrial invertebrate species in Antarctica". Antarctic Science22(3), 221–231. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ ”Registered charities in England and Wales” [1]
- ↑ ”Ian Edwards Cancer Break Trust”[2]
- ↑ Mason, Sarah (4 March 2017). "Ian Edwards Cancer Break Trust bids a final farewell". Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ↑ ”South 2015”[3]
- ↑ "South 2015: An Antarctic Voyage to Remember trailer" [4]
External links[edit]
- British Antarctic Survey
- West Bromwich Mountaineering Club
- British Mountaineering Council
- Humanists UK
- Birmingham Humanists
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