Ronald Hatton
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Sir Ronald George Hatton, Script error: No such module "If empty". (6 July 1886 – 11 November 1965) was a British horticulturalist and pomologist.
Life
Hatton was born in Kilburn, London.[1][2] His father Ernest Hatton was a barrister, and his maternal grandfather William Pearson a KC; his mother Amy was the sister of the biometrician Karl Pearson.[3]Template:R/superscript Hatton attended Brighton College and later Exeter School, and in 1906 went up to Balliol College, Oxford, to read history; he took a fourth in 1910, and his BA in 1912.[3]Template:R/superscript He went to work as a farm labourer, and in 1913 published a book, Folk of the Furrow, written under the pen name "Christopher Holdenby".[3]Template:R/superscript From 1912 he studied agriculture at the South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye in Kent. In 1914 the Fruit Experimental Station of the college became the East Malling Research Station; when the director left for the First World War, Hatton became acting director.[4]Template:R/superscript[3]Template:R/superscript He was made director in 1918.[3]Template:R/superscript
In 1914 Hatton married Hannah Rachel Rigden, who was from Ashford. In 1922 they had a son, Christopher, who became a monk.[3]Template:R/superscript[5]Template:R/superscript
Hatton retired from the East Malling centre in 1949. He died on 11 November 1965 at his home in Benenden, in Kent. He was buried in the churchyard at East Malling, not far from the research station estate.[3]Template:R/superscript
Work
Hatton was director at East Malling for thirty years. During that time he greatly expanded both its size and its range of activities. His principal achievement was the rationalisation, standardisation and classification of rootstocks for fruit trees. His work led to the establishment first of the Malling series, and later, in collaboration with the John Innes Horticultural Institution, of the Malling-Merton rootstocks for apples.[3]Template:R/superscript
Recognition
Hatton received the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1930. He was made a CBE in 1934, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944, and was knighted in 1949.[4]Template:R/superscript[6]Template:R/superscript
References
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- ↑ 1901 England Census
- ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
- ↑ a b c d e f g h A. F. Posnette (2004). Hatton, Sir Ronald George (1886–1965). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".. Template:Link note.
- ↑ a b Edward J. Salisbury (1966). Ronald George Hatton. 1886-1965. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 12 (November 1966): 250–258. Template:Link note.
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- 1886 births
- 1965 deaths
- People educated at Exeter School
- English botanists
- English horticulturists
- Pomologists
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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- Fellows of the Royal Society
- People from Kilburn, London
- People from Benenden
- Alumni of Wye College
- Academics of Wye College