About Timothy Walker
Born 1958. Timothy Walker is a British botanist, television presenter and university teacher.
Timothy Walker (born 10 July 1958) is a British botanist. He was the Horti Praefectus (Director) of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum.
Biography After attending Abingdon School from 1971 to 1976, Walker studied for a BA degree in Botany at University College, Oxford, from 1977 to 1980. He also holds a lectureship in Plant Conservation at Somerville College, Oxford, and is a lecturer in biology at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. He has won four gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
In June 2011, Walker presented Botany: A Blooming History, a series of three television programmes broadcast on BBC Four, covering the history of botany. The series was repeated, again on BBC4, in August 2022.
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Timothy Walker was born on 10 July 1958.
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