Anthony David Bradshaw FRS (17 January 1926 – 21 August 2008) was a British evolutionary ecologist.
[1][2][3] Bradshaw was born in Kew, Surrey and educated at St Pauls School, Hammersmith.
In 1968 Bradshaw accepted the position of Chair of Botany at the University of Liverpool where he pioneered novel ideas in the field of restoration ecology to polluted sites recover without the need to cover them in imported topsoil.
His work on the revegetation of china clay tips in Cornwall formed the basis of the techniques behind the Eden Project.
In 1991 he delivered the Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society on Genostasis and the limits to Evolution.