Edwin John Butler FRS
(1874-1943)

Died aged c. 69

Sir Edwin John Butler CMG CIE FRS (13 August 1874 – 4 April 1943) was an Irish mycologist and plant pathologist. He became the Imperial Mycologist in India and later the first director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in England. He was knighted in 1939. During his twenty years in India, he began large scale surveys on fungi and plant pathology and published the landmark book Fungi and Disease in Plants: An Introduction to the Diseases of Field and Plantation Crops, especially those of India and the East (1918) and has been called the Father of Mycology and Plant Pathology in India.

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Mycologist and plant pathologist Edwin J. Butler FRS 1874 - 1943 born in Kilkee. Imperial Mycologist, India. Founding Director Imperial Bureau of Mycology, Kew

Sweeney Memorial Public Library, Cultúrlann Sweeney, O’Connell Street, Kilkee, Ireland where they was born near (1874)