Claude Wilson Wardlaw FRSE FLS (4 February 1901 – 16 December 1985) was a British botanist, who specialised in diseases of the banana.
[2][3] He was born in western central Scotland on 4 February 1901, the son of Major J. Wardlaw of the Highland Light Infantry.
[citation needed] He then returned to Britain for final studies University of Manchester, gaining an MSc.
His proposers were Frederick Orpen Bower, James Montagu Frank Drummond, John Graham Kerr and William Wright Smith.
In 1940, Wardlaw returned to Britain to serve as Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at the University of Manchester.