Peter MacOwan
1830–1909
Botanist and educator. BA, chemistry, London University, 1857. Principal, Shaw College, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1862. Science master, Gill College, Somerset East, 1869–81. Professor of botany at the South African College, 1881–9; director of Cape Town Botanic Garden, 1881–92; curator of Cape Government Herbarium, 1881–1905. Government botanist, 1892–1905. Founder and secretary of the South African Botanical Exchange Society.
Sources
DSAB
Gunn and Codd 1981.
Bibliography
DSAB: Dictionary of South African biography. Edited by W. J. de Kock et al. 4 vols. Pretoria and Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk [and others]. 1968–81.
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