Harry Hugh Wormald

Harry Hugh Wormald (1879, West Yorkshire – 10 December 1955, Maidstone) was an English plant pathologist and mycologist, known for his research on fungal and bacterial diseases of fruit trees in the UK.

Biography Harry Wormald was christened on 16 November 1879 in Luddenden. After being trained as a school teacher, he taught in Yorkshire schools from 1900 to 1908. In 1908, with the aid of a scholarship from the London School Board, he matriculated at the Royal College of Science of Imperial College London. and was awarded an A.R.C.S. With another scholarship, he started research at Imperial College London For ten years, beginning in 1935, he edited EMR's Annual Report. For the British Mycological Society, he served as the president for one year from 1940 to 1941 and was the joint editor of the Transactions of the British Mycological Society from 1931 to 1945. For the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB), he served on the AAB's Council from 1937 to 1939 and as the vice-president from 1938 to 1939. In 1945, Wormald became a staff member of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, stationed at East Malling. There he worked for seven years as an abstractor of horticultural literature for many different languages — he could expertly translate seven foreign languages into English. During the last three years of his life, he suffered from severe disease, but with the help of his wife, he was able to prepare new editions of his two principal works, The Brown Rot Diseases of Fruit Trees and The Diseases of Fruits and Hops.

Selected publications Articles

Books and monographs abstract for 1954 publication abstract abstract for revised 3rd edition, 1955