Sydney Cross Harland FRS FRSE (1891–1982) was a British agricultural botanist with considerable international experience.
[1] He studied Sciences with a focus upon Geology at King's College London[2] graduating BSc in 1912 and gaining a doctorate (DSc) in 1919.
In 1923 he became Professor of Botany at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago.
[3] He returned to Britain in 1949 as a Reader in Botany at the University of Manchester being made the George Harrison Professor of Botany at the University of Manchester the following year, 1950, and retaining this post until 1958, when he was subsequently made an emeritus professor.
They had two daughters, but divorced and in 1934 he married Olive Sylvia Atteck, from a wealthy Trinidad family.