Neville Graeme Marchant

Neville Graeme Marchant (born 1939) is a retired Western Australian botanist.

Marchant began working for the Western Australian Herbarium at the age of 15, as a laboratory assistant to Government Botanist Charles Gardner.

He taught for a short time, including under Professor Brian Grieve, before taking up a scholarship to study at Cambridge University.

After attaining a PhD in plant taxonomy, he won a position on the staff of the Western Australian Herbarium, which he took up in 1970.

He was involved in the development of FloraBase, and the establishment of regional herbaria.

Neville Marchant, February 2018