William McRae (botanist)

William McRae FRSE CIE (26 May 1878 – 8 July 1952) was a Scottish botanist specialising in fungi and lichens.

He was born on 26 May 1878 to his mother Margaret Younie and father William McRae.

[2] He was educated at James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh, then studied science at the University of Edinburgh before studying as a postgraduate at the University of Munich in Germany.

[3] He worked as a Demonstrator in the Royal College of Science, London, then in 1908 moved to India.

His proposers were Malcolm Wilson, Sir William Wright Smith, Robert Campbell, and John Macqueen Cowan.