| Code | PX983 |
| Dates | 1830-1922 |
| Person Name | Carruthers; William (1830-1922); Palaeobotanist, Keeper of Botany |
| Surname | Carruthers |
| Forenames | William |
| Epithet | Palaeobotanist, Keeper of Botany |
| Activity | Museum Staff: appointed Assistant in Department of Botany 25 Aug 1859; Senior Assistant 1865; Keeper of Botany 15 Feb 1871; Retired 29 May 1895.
Palaeobotanist
1845-54 at Edinburgh University (bar two periods of teaching). 1854 to New College, Edinburgh, for church career but was persuaded into science - became Lecturer on Botany at New Veterinary College, Edinburgh.
Fellow of the Linnean Society 1861 - President 1886-90, VP and on Council at various times. Fellow of the Royal Society. President of the Geologists' Association 1875. President of the Royal Microscopical Society 1901.
1871-1909 Consulting Botanist to the Royal Agricultural Society. |
| Relationships | Married Jeannie Couch Moffat 1865. Sons Samuel William and John Bennett (later Government Botanist in Trinidad, died there 1910) Daughter Jeannie Moffat Carruthers, 1872 - 1912 |