Edward Alexander Newell Arber

Edward Alexander Newell Arber (5 August 1870, London – 14 June 1918, Cambridge) was an English botanist and paleontologist. His father was the literary scholar and anthologist Edward Arber.

Arber was born at No. 5 Queen Square, Bloomsbury. Sent to Davos in Switzerland at the age of 15 for health reasons he developed an interest in botany. Returning home he studied Botany and Geology at Trinity College, Cambridge (1895-1899), where he later became a professor, specialising in palaeobotany. From 1899 until the end of his life he was appointed demonstrator in Palaeobotany in the [[Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences|Woodwardian [later Sedgwick] Museum]] in Cambridge. Between 1901 and 1906 he worked on the naming and arrangement of the palaeobotanical specimens in the Geology Department of the British Museum.

He married plant morphologist and philosopher Agnes Robertson in 1909. They had many interests in common, and his marriage was described as 'happy'. They had one child, a daughter. He died in 1918 following a period of ill health. Provided by Wikipedia