Crook, Albert Oliff ("Paddy")

List: records (2) | collections (2) | images (0) | determinations (0) | confirmations (0) made by Albert Crook

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General Information

Date of birth: 27 Dec 1913

Biography

Husband of Lucy Chippindall.

The information below has been copied directly from Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. 1981. Botanical exploration of southern Africa. Balkema, Cape Town.

b. Newcastle, Natal, 27 Dec. 1913; ed. Kearsney College and, after serving his articles, qualified in law. On active service in east and north Africa during World War II and attended Witwatersrand Univ. 1946-49, graduating B. Sc. (Hons.) On Professional staff of Dept. of Conservation, Rhodesia, 1950-63. Married Lucy K. A. Chippindall (q.v.) in 1947. After his retirement he and his wife worked on a taxonomic treatment of the grasses of Southern Africa and Rhodesia, spending a good deal of their time at Bolus Herbarium.

Specimens c. 2,000 of which about 400 were collected in Southern Africa; in SRGH, PRE, BOL.


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The DRC flora team (2025). Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Person details: Crook, AO.
https://www.drcongoflora.com/speciesdata/person-display.php?person_id=198, retrieved 2 August 2025

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