R. W. Wheldon
Prof Robert William Wheldon FRSE (1893–1954) was a 20th-century British agriculturalist and cattle-breeder.[1] He was President of the English Jersey Cattle Society in the 1940s who named the Wheldon Memorial Trophy in his honour.[2]
Life
[edit]He was born on 17 January 1893 in or near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was educated there at the Rutherford College of Technology then studied at Newcastle University, graduating BSc in 1917. He began lecturing in Agriculture at King's College, Newcastle after graduation.
During the Second World War he advised on beef production.[3]
In 1943 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John William Heslop-Harrison, Alfred Hobson, Sir Godfrey Thomson, and Max Born.[4]
In 1947 he became Professor of Agriculture at Newcastle University which role he continued until death.
He died in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 15 January 1954 aged 60, and was buried in Newbottle churchyard.[5]
Family
[edit]In 1920 he married Edith Majorie Tulloh.
They were parents to John Tulloh Wheldon, an anaesthetist.[6]
Publications
[edit]- Cross-Breeding of Cattle in Relation to Beef Production
References
[edit]- ^ The Jersey Cow (periodical) issue 84, 1965
- ^ "Jersey Cattle Society 2015 AGM". Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ North Northumberland at War 1939-1945
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5.
- ^ Sunderland Daily Echo 19 January 1954
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
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