Frederick Whalley Sansome CBE FRSE FLS (1902–1981) was a 20th-century British botanist who spent most of his later professional life teaching in Africa.
By 1910 they had moved to a larger house, an end-terraced villa at 2 Cluny Place in the south of the city.
In 1923 he began work as an assistant at the Plant Breeding Station in Edinburgh under the directorship of J M F Drummond.
His proposers were James Montagu Frank Drummond, William Wright Smith, James Robert Matthews, Sir John Graham Kerr and Samuel Williams.
[3] In 1948 he left Britain for more novel employment, accepting a professorship at University College in Nigeria.