D. A. Webb

{{short description|Irish botanist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = David Allardice Webb | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1912|08|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|09|26|1912|08|12|df=y}} | death_place = Oxford, England | fields = Botany | workplaces = Trinity College Dublin | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = }}

'''David Allardice Webb''' (12 August 1912 – 26 September 1994) was an Irish botanist and chair of botany at [[Trinity College, Dublin]] from 1949 to 1966. He was son of George and Dr [[Ella Webb]]. In Ireland he had studied under [[Henry Horatio Dixon]] and also studied in the United Kingdom. In addition to botany he edited a history of Trinity College with [[R. B. McDowell]] and published a book on the history of art in Trinity College.<ref>[http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/tercentenary/300-years/chairs/david-allardice-webb.php Trinity College, Dublin on David Webb]</ref> In 1982 he received the Boyle Medal of the [[Royal Dublin Society]].<ref>[https://www.rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society/Our-Work/Projects/RDS-Irish-Times-Boyle-Medal-for-Scientific-Excelle/Boyle-Medal-Laureates Boyle Medal Laureates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402102130/https://www.rds.ie/Ireland-s-Philanthropic-Society/Our-Work/Projects/RDS-Irish-Times-Boyle-Medal-for-Scientific-Excelle/Boyle-Medal-Laureates |date=2 April 2019 }} [[Royal Dublin Society]]</ref> His botanical specialties included his work as a leading taxonomist of ''[[Saxifraga]]''. He died in a car accident on his way to the [[University of Reading]]'s [[herbarium]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.herbarium.rdg.ac.uk/modules.php?name=Collectors&rop=show_collector&id=2 |title=Herbarium RNG |access-date=8 February 2013 |archive-date=4 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204025240/http://www.herbarium.rdg.ac.uk/modules.php?name=Collectors&rop=show_collector&id=2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The eighth edition of ''An Irish Flora'' was renamed ''Webb's An Irish Flora'' in his honour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/news/articles/2012/Webbs_Flora.php |title=Trinity College, Dublin site |access-date=8 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209185523/http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/news/articles/2012/Webbs_Flora.php |archive-date=9 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Publications==

*Webb, D.A. 1943. ''An Irish Flora''. 1st ed. W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press. Dundalk. *——— and Hart, A.V. 1945. Contributions towards an understanding of the calcicole and calcifuge habit in some Irish plants. ''Sci. Proc. Roy''. Dublin Soc. N.S. 25, 19 – 28. *——— 1952. The flora and vegetation of Ireland in Die Pflanzebwelt Irlands." ''Veroff. Geobot. Inst. Rubels,'' Zurich, 25 H, 46–84. *——— 1977. An Irish Flora 6th ed. Dundalgan Press (W.Tempest) Ltd, Dundalk. *——— 1954. Notes on four Irish heaths Part 1 ''Erica mackaiana''. ''Ir Nat, J.'' '''11''': 187–192. *——— 1955. Biological flora of the British Isles. ''Erica mackaiana'', ''Journal of Ecology''. '''43''': 319–330. *——— 1980. The flora of the Aran Islands. ''Journal Life Sciences, Royal Dublin Society''. '''2''': 51–83. *——— and Hodgson, J. 1968. The Flora of Inishbofin and Inishark. ''Proceedings of the Botanical Society of the British Isles''. '''7''': 345–363. *——— and Scannell, M.J.P. 1983. ''Flora of Connemara and the Burren.'' Royal Dublin Society & Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. *——— and Scannell, M.J.P. 1984. Flora of Connemara and the Burren; some corrections and additions. ''Ir. Nat.J.'' '''21''': 286–288. *———, Doogue, D. and Parnell, J. 1996. ''An Irish Flora.'' 7th ed Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest) Ltd, Dundalk.

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