David Bramwell

David Bramwell MBE (25 November 1942 – 20 January 2022) was an English botanist and taxonomist, director of the Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Gran Canaria (1974–2012), and active in the conservation of insular floras.

Education Bramwell was born in Ormskirk, near Liverpool, on 25 November 1942. He attended Old Hall Grammar School, Maghull, and studied botany at the University of Liverpool (BSc 1962–1966, MSc 1967), with postgraduate study at the University of Seville (1968–1969). He completed his doctoral thesis on a "Revision of the genus Echium in Macaronesia" at the University of Reading (1969–1971).

Personal life and death In 1967, Bramwell married Irene Zoë Taylor (born 1944), a graduate of the University of Liverpool and a botanical illustrator. After the death of his first wife he married Yolanda in 2011.

Awards

The Sir Peter Scott Award for Conservation Merit (1984). MBE in the 1990 Birthday Honours for services to the British community in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. The Cesar Manrique Prize for Environment (1996). Adopted Son of the Island of Gran Canaria (2005).

Eponymy Aeonium davidbramwellii H.Y.Liu Selected books Plants and Islands (1979). David Bramwell (Editor). Academic Press Inc. Botanic Gardens and the World: Conservation Strategy. (1987). D. Bramwell (Editor). Academic Press Inc. Subtropical Gardens (1995). David Bramwell, Zoe Bramwell. Rueda. Medicinal Plants of the Canary Islands (2004). David Bramwell. Rueda Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands (2001, 4th Edition). David Bramwell, Zoe Bramwell. Rueda. The Biology of Island Floras (2011). David Bramwell (Editor), Juli Caujapé-Castells (Editor). Cambridge University Press.