About Harold Wager
Lived 1862 – 1929 (aged 67). Harold Wager was a British mycologist and botanist.
Harold William Taylor Wager FRS (11 March 1862 – 17 November 1929) was a British botanist and mycologist. He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904. He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1910 and again in 1919.
Wager was first a lecturer in botany at the Yorkshire College, then at Victoria University, then later he took the role of an Inspector of Schools for the Board of Education.
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Who was Harold Wager?
British botanist and mycologist (1862-1929)
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Harold Wager was born on 11 March 1862.
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Harold Wager died on 17 November 1929.
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Harold Wager was a mycologist and botanist.
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