Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby
[citation needed] Ashby married Elizabeth Helen Margaret Farries, whom he met while they were working together on incineration techniques for measuring carbon in tissue.According to Burges and Eden[3]"His enthusiasm and flair for botany made Manchester one of the leading botanical schools in the United Kingdom".[5] Ashby was secretary of the Society for Experimental Biology from 1935 to 1938 and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science from 1962 to 1963.[7] In 1968, he received the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Tasmania and in 1973, he became president and chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast.He was adviser to the British National Fruit Traders Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
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