| Activity | Museum Staff: Appointed 1 Jan 1959; Appointed as an Assistant Experimental Officer, in the Department of Palaeontology (Palaeobotany section), 18 Aug 1961; Higher Scientific Officer 1 Nov 1966; retired 1997. Died 26 January 2019.
Cedric's particular research interest was the Coal Measures. Working with Chris Cleal over many decades, Cedric published over 15 papers on Carboniferous plant fossils and their significance. He also collaborated and published on Silurian and Devonian plant remains with Dianne Edwards, Alan Hemsley and Paul Strother. In 1994, Cedric co-edited a volume of Biological Reviews with Elizabeth Sheffield, resulting from the Natural History Museum and Linnean Society of London Symposium held to bring together neobotanists and palaeobotanists on the theme of Alternation of Generations in plants. |