David Bramwell (botanist)

David Bramwell MBE (25 November 1942 – 20 January 2022) was an English botanist and taxonomist, director of the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Gran Canaria (1974–2012), and active in the conservation of insular floras.

He was assistant editor of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society and secretary of the International Flora of Macaronesia project.

He left Reading in 1974 when he was appointed the Director of Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo.

He was appointed Director of the UNESCO Chair for the Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in Macaronesia and West Africa (2011–2014).

[3][6] In 1967, Bramwell married Irene Zoë Taylor (born 1944), a graduate of the University of Liverpool and a botanical illustrator.