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Tom Petch

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263: 252: 33: 88:, a doctor and mycologist in King's Lynn, encouraged him to study fungi. Through a friendship with George Massee of the Royal Botanical Gardens Petch was appointed Mycologist to the Government of Ceylon in 1905. He returned to England briefly to marry Edith Mary Plowright (b. 1875), Charles' daughter, in 1908. 113:
Petch became interested in fungi which lived with or on insects, starting in 1906 with a paper on fungi in termite nests. Between 1921 and 1944 he wrote 13 "Studies on entomogeneous fungi" and 7 "Notes on entomogeneous fungi", all except the first published in the
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Petch was educated at the choir school of Holy Trinity at Hull, and taught at the King's Lynn Grammar School and Leyton Technical Institute while preparing for external degrees at the University of London. Petch had an early interest in natural history, but
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Petch held this position until 1924. After a leave to visit England, he returned to Ceylon as the founding director of the Tea Research Institute. In 1928 he retired to England, where he lived in
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Tom and Emily Petch had at least one son, Charles Plowright Petch (1909-1988), who became a surgeon like his grandfather, was also interested in mycology, and published a
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During his time in Ceylon, Petch studied the fungal diseases of rubber, cocoanut palm, tea, pepper, tobacco, and other crops grown there. He wrote
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https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/charles-plowright-petch
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in the house formerly owned by his father-in-law, near King's Lynn.
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best remembered for his work on the interaction between
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Royal College of Physicians biography of C. P. Petch
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English mycologist and plant pathologist (1870–1948)
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Thomas Petch

Hornsea
Yorkshire
King's Lynn
Norfolk
mycologist
plant pathologist
fungi
insects
Charles Plowright
North Wootton
British Mycological Society
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
Category:Taxa named by Thomas Petch
https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/charles-plowright-petch
International Plant Names Index
 Petch
"Obituary. Tom Petch, B.A., B.Sc. (1870-1948). A centenary tribute"
doi
10.1016/S0007-1536(76)80037-X

Thomas Petch
Works by or about Tom Petch
Internet Archive
Categories
1870 births
1948 deaths

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