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Frank Leonard Engledow C.M.G, FRS1, (20 August 1890 - 3 July 1985) was an agricultural botanist who did his research at the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Cambridge Farm from 1919. He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and was Drapers Professor of Agriculture and directed the School of Agriculture of the University of Cambridge from 1930 to 1957. He advised the Government on agricultural production in the (former) colonies as well as in the homeland in the period between 1927 and 1960. He kept publishing on Agricultural practices and teaching after his retirement.〔G.D.H.Bell, Frank Leonard Engledow. 20 August 1890 – 3 July 1985; Biogr. Mems Fell.R.Soc.1986 32, 188 – 219, published 1 December 1986〕 ==Education== Engledow was born in Deptford, Kent as the fifth and last child from Henry Engledow, police sergeant and, after his retirement, agent of Bexleyheath Brewery and Elizabeth Prentice. Frank attended from the age of five the Upland Council school, Bexleyheath. He proceeded from 1905 until 1909 in Dartford Grammar School. From there he went to University College London to study pure and applied mathematics and physics on a one-year scholarship. He won College Prizes in these subjects and obtained a year later a B. Sc. externally. On advice of one of his teachers, E. Cunningham, he applied for and was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge. He was more interested in the application of mathematics than in the theory which was the subject of the Tripos lectures he was supposed to attend. So he tried to change to subjects in botany, zoology and geology which he had found out to be of more interest from contacts with his fellow undergraduates. Fortunately he was permitted to do so; with hindsight to his career the trust in his instinct proved to be right. Although he started with a backlog in knowledge his determination and hard work resulted in a First in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1912, the award of a Slater Studentship of the College and, later, a Research Scholarship of the Ministry of Agriculture. He had been accepted as assistant by R.H. Biffen,〔F. L. Engledow, ‘Rowland Harry Biffen, 1874–1949, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 7 (1950): 9-25.〕 who had been appointed in 1908 as the first Professor of Agricultural Botany. Biffen became the first Director of the newly founded Plant Breeding Institute in 1912. A programme of research combining genetics with quantitative methods and statistics was launched resulting in three papers of Engledow in 1914. One of these was co-authored by G. Udny Yule (then Lecturer in Statistics in Cambridge), who became very interested in the statistics to be used in agricultural botany. He became a Fellow of St Johns, submitting his thesis based on his experimental work to be refereed by Professor William Bateson in 1919. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Engledow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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