Patrick Geddes
1854–1932
Scottish botanist, sociologist, and urban planner. Studied at the Royal School of Mines with T. H. Huxley, who subsequently employed him as a demonstrator. Interested in applying the lessons of evolutionary science to human society; worked on urban renewal and the preservation of historic buildings in Edinburgh. Published The evolution of sex (1889), with his student, J. Arthur Thomson. Professor of botany, University College, Dundee, 1889; University of Bombay, 1919. Knighted, 1932.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994
ODNB
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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