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David H. Valentine
David Henriques Valentine (16 February 1912 in Salford – 10 April 1987 in Manchester) was a British botanist and plant taxonomist.
== Early career ==
Valentine was born in Higher Broughton, Salford, 16 February 1912, elder child of Emmanuel Henriques Valentine and his wife Dora Deborah Valentine ''née'' Besso. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in Natural Sciences. His doctorate was in plant physiology after which, in 1936, his interests shifted to taxonomy and he was appointed Curator of the Herbarium at the Botany School of the University. In 1938 he became a Fellow of St. John's.
He was a member of the ''Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group'' and was one of those who carried out experiments and, based on their outcome, published in 1937 a critical examination of the Air Raid Precaution schemes of the British Home Office. Their book was given a hostile review in ''Nature'' by retired general Charles Foulkes and Valentine was one of the signatories of a letter in reply.
When the War began he was drafted into the Ministry of Food to work on the dehydration of vegetables (cabbage, carrot and potato) intended for consumption by the armed forces. The success in this work was described in 1943 in the British House of Lords, which also reported on a Dehydration Mission to the British Empire in Africa,〔(Handard Lords 21 July 1943, debate on Vegetable Dehydration )〕 a mission in which Valentine took part. At the end of the war he was the editor of a fuller report of the dehydration work.
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