Arthur Edmund Muskett

Arthur Edmund Muskett (15 April 1900, Norwich – 22 October 1984, Belfast) was a British phytopathologist and mycologist. He is noteworthy as a broadcaster who contributed to the Ulster Garden radio programme and as the president of the British Mycological Society for a one-year term from 1948 to 1949.

Education and career Muskett grew up on his father’s farm close to the village of Ashwellthorpe, about 20 km S.W. of Norwich. After education at the City of Norwich School, he joined in 1918 the Royal Air Force and served for a year as a pilot. In 1919 he matriculated at Imperial College London. There he studied chemistry for 2 years, before John Bretland Farmer persuaded him to switch to botany. Muskett graduated in 1922 with a B.Sc. in botany from Imperial College London. In the 1980s he published, with coauthor J. P. Malone of the Plant Pathology Division, Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, a series of 6 articles giving a catalogue of Irish fungi.

Muskets was an outstanding lecturer on botany, mycology, and horticulture. He was interested in environmental conservation

In 1957 Muskett was appointed Officer of the British Empire. In October 2016 at a ceremony at QUB, Dame Mary Peters unveiled a plaque dedicated to Alfred Edmund Muskett.

A. E. Muskett and his wife had a son Bryan and a daughter Doreen.