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| '''Christopher Nigel Page''' (1942–2022) was an English botanist who specialised in [[Fern]]s and [[Spermatophyte]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Index of Botanists |url=https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=67395 |website=Harvard University |access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> He also worked on [[Pinophyta|conifers]], naming species of ''[[Afrocarpus]]'', for example ''[[Afrocarpus dawei]]'' and ''[[Afrocarpus gracilior]]'', ''[[Sundacarpus]]'' and ''[[Retrophyllum]]''. He read [[botany]] at [[Durham University]] then gained a PhD at [[Newcastle University]], followed by a post-doctoral fellowship from 1968 to 1970 at the [[University of Queensland]], in [[Brisbane]], working on Queensland pteridophytes, before returning to the [[UK]] to work at [[Oxford University]] for a year. In 1971 he joined the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]] (RBGE), founding the RGBE Conifer Conservation Programme, now The International Conifer Conservation Programme.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and...-conservation/conifer-conservation/|title=The International Conifer Conservation Programme|access-date=28 May 2023}}</ref> In 1976-77 he visited eastern Australia (Brisbane and [[Hobart]]) to work on pteridophytes (particularly ''[[Doodia]]'', ''[[Cheilanthes]]'' and ''[[Adiantum]]'') and also [[Japan]], [[Taiwan]], [[Hong Kong]], [[The Philippines]] and [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/77-mar-010.pdf|publisher=Australian Systematic Botany Society|title=Newsletter No. 10|date=March 1977|access-date=17 February 2023}}</ref> He retired from the RBGE in 1996, moving to live in [[Cornwall]]. He joined [[Camborne School of Mines]], [[University of Exeter]], in 2004, teaching part-time on the Environmental Science and Technology degree in CSM, and also in Biosciences until 2008. Some of his research in Cornwall involved experiments in [[regreening]] former extractive minerals sites, which he presented in 2017 in Parliament, with Professor Hylke Glass, also of CSM, as co-author.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scienceinparliament.org..../11/SiP-September-20171.pdf|publisher=Science in Parliament|title=Regreening of barren lands as new biodiversity reserves|date=Summer 2017|access-date=18 February 2023}}</ref> He had given a talk on [[BBC4]] in 2008 in the series "Meetings with Remarkable Trees" on monkey puzzles (''[[Araucaria araucana]]'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074syk|website=BBC|title=Meetings with Remarkable Trees: Monkey Puzzle| access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref> He retired, as Senior Honorary Research Fellow, in June 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geologycornwall.com/tributes|title=Tributes #Dr Chris Page|website=Royal Geological Society of Cornwall|access-date=18 February 2023}}</ref> He was editor of the ''Transactions of the [[Royal Geological Society of Cornwall]]'' 1996–2015, then President from 2016 to 2020 (succeeded by Professor Frances Wall of [[Camborne School of Mines]]), and received the society's Bolitho Gold Medal in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geologycornwall.com/gold-medal-award|title=Gold medal Award|website=Royal Geological Society of Cornwall|access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref> | '''Christopher Nigel Page''' (1942–2022) was an English botanist who specialised in [[Fern]]s and [[Spermatophyte]]s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Index of Botanists |url=https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=67395 |website=Harvard University |access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref> He also worked on [[Pinophyta|conifers]], naming species of ''[[Afrocarpus]]'', for example ''[[Afrocarpus dawei]]'' and ''[[Afrocarpus gracilior]]'', ''[[Sundacarpus]]'' and ''[[Retrophyllum]]''. He read [[botany]] at [[Durham University]] then gained a PhD at [[Newcastle University]], followed by a post-doctoral fellowship from 1968 to 1970 at the [[University of Queensland]], in [[Brisbane]], working on Queensland pteridophytes, before returning to the [[UK]] to work at [[Oxford University]] for a year. In 1971 he became a Fellow of the [[Linnean Society]] and that same year he joined the [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh]] (RBGE), founding the RGBE Conifer Conservation Programme, now The International Conifer Conservation Programme.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and...-conservation/conifer-conservation/|title=The International Conifer Conservation Programme|access-date=28 May 2023}}</ref> In 1976-77 he visited eastern Australia (Brisbane and [[Hobart]]) to work on pteridophytes (particularly ''[[Doodia]]'', ''[[Cheilanthes]]'' and ''[[Adiantum]]'') and also [[Japan]], [[Taiwan]], [[Hong Kong]], [[The Philippines]] and [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/77-mar-010.pdf|publisher=Australian Systematic Botany Society|title=Newsletter No. 10|date=March 1977|access-date=17 February 2023}}</ref> He retired from the RBGE in 1996, moving to live in [[Cornwall]]. He joined [[Camborne School of Mines]], [[University of Exeter]], in 2004, teaching part-time on the Environmental Science and Technology degree in CSM, and also in Biosciences until 2008. Some of his research in Cornwall involved experiments in [[regreening]] former extractive minerals sites, which he presented in 2017 in Parliament, with Professor Hylke Glass, also of CSM, as co-author.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scienceinparliament.org..../11/SiP-September-20171.pdf|publisher=Science in Parliament|title=Regreening of barren lands as new biodiversity reserves|date=Summer 2017|access-date=18 February 2023}}</ref> He had given a talk on [[BBC4]] in 2008 in the series "Meetings with Remarkable Trees" on monkey puzzles (''[[Araucaria araucana]]'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074syk|website=BBC|title=Meetings with Remarkable Trees: Monkey Puzzle| access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref> He retired, as Senior Honorary Research Fellow, in June 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geologycornwall.com/tributes|title=Tributes #Dr Chris Page|website=Royal Geological Society of Cornwall|access-date=18 February 2023}}</ref> He was editor of the ''Transactions of the [[Royal Geological Society of Cornwall]]'' 1996–2015, then President from 2016 to 2020 (succeeded by Professor Frances Wall of [[Camborne School of Mines]]), and received the society's Bolitho Gold Medal in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geologycornwall.com/gold-medal-award|title=Gold medal Award|website=Royal Geological Society of Cornwall|access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref> |
| ==Personal life== | ==Personal life== |
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