Thomas Bennet-Clark

Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark CBE FRS (13 January 1903 – 24 November 1975) was a British biologist.

He was born in Edinburgh the son of Thomas Bennet-Clark, a chartered accountant with the Edinburgh firm of R. & G. Scott, and his wife, Anne Chalmers Hanna.

[citation needed] In Birmingham his position was filled by Prof Charles Chesters.

[4] He was the first executive editor of the Journal of Experimental Botany, which published its first issue in 1950.

[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1950 and awarded a CBE in 1966.