Norman Loftus Bor CIE OBE FRSE FLS FNI (2 May 1893 – 22 December 1972) was an Irish botanist.
He then received a BA at Trinity College, Dublin before travelling to Scotland to obtain a BSc at Edinburgh University in 1921.
During the First World War he served in the Connaught Rangers in France, Greece and Palestine.
[3] In 1946 he returned to Britain, and in 1948 took the post of Assistant Director of Kew Gardens in London.
In 1962 the Linnean Society awarded him their gold medal, the highest recognition a botanist can receive.