Richard Hook Richens
Botanist, Deceased Person
1919 – 1984
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Who was Richard Hook Richens?
Richard Hook Richens was a Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cambridge University, and became best known for his studies of elm. His most famous publication was the seminal Elm, published in 1983, in which he sank many elms formerly treated as species as mere varieties or subspecies of Ulmus minor, notably the English Elm U. procera, which he renamed U. minor var. vulgaris.
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