John Walton FRSE LLD (1895–1971) was a 20th-century British botanist and paleobotanist.
He was born in Chelsea, London[1] on 14 May 1895, the son of the artist Edward Arthur Walton and his wife Helen Law.
[3] He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University under Prof Albert Seward graduating MA.
In 1930 he was created Professor of Botany at Glasgow University holding this role until his retiral in 1962.
His proposers were Edward Taylor Jones, Sir John Graham Kerr, Thomas Murray MacRobert, and Robert Alexander Houstoun.