(1 October 1911 – 24 July 1988) was an eminent biochemist who spent most of his career at the University College of North Wales, Bangor.

[1] In 1979, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, mainly for his research into the microbal degradation of aromatic compounds.

In 1937, he was appointed to a lectureship at Leeds University where his head of department, Dr. Frank Happold, introduced him to bacteria and to their ability to metabolise aromatic compounds: this was to form the basis of his most important later work.

Here he anticipated many ecological concerns about pollution caused by the release of man-made compounds into the environment 20 years before the rest of society.

He was awarded the honour from two main research areas: the education of the biochemistry of the aerobic and anaerobic pathways of the catabolism of aromatic compounds in Nature, and the isolation of the toxic factors in bracken fern causing the poisoning of farm animals.