Harry Hugh Wormald (1879, West Yorkshire – 10 December 1955,[1] Maidstone) was an English plant pathologist and mycologist, known for his research on fungal and bacterial diseases of fruit trees in the UK.
[5] There Wormald did important research on the fungus Monilinia fructicola, which causes brown rot in cherries, plums, peaches, and apricots.
[2] In 1923 Wormald was appointed the head of the plant pathology section of the East Malling Research Station (EMR).
[6][7] For ten years, beginning in 1935, he edited EMR's Annual Report.
In 1945 Wormald became a staff member of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, stationed at East Malling.