Arthur Edmund Muskett OBE (15 April 1900, Norwich – 22 October 1984, Belfast) was a British phytopathologist and mycologist.
He is noteworthy as a broadcaster who contributed to the Ulster Garden radio programme[1] and as the president of the British Mycological Society for a one-year term from 1948 to 1949.
After education at the City of Norwich School, he joined in 1918 the Royal Air Force and served for a year as a pilot.
After WW II, Muskett was in charge of setting up QUB's Plant Pathology Field Station and shipping to Africa and southern Europe thousands of tons of potato seed tubers, which QUB's field station tested and found free from viral contamination.
[3] In the 1980s he published, with coauthor J. P. Malone of the Plant Pathology Division, Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, a series of 6 articles giving a catalogue of Irish fungi.
[11] In October 2016 at a ceremony at QUB, Dame Mary Peters unveiled a plaque dedicated to Alfred Edmund Muskett.