{{Short description|British botanist (1840–1896)}} '''Marmaduke Alexander Lawson''' (20 January 1840, Seaton Carew, County Durham – 14 February 1896, Madras) was a British botanist.
Lawson matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1858 and graduated there B.A. 1862 and M.A. 1868. He was Sherardian Professor of Botany and Rural Economy at Oxford from 1868 to 1883<ref>{{acad|id=LW858MA|name=Lawson, Marmaduke Alexander}}</ref> until he resigned in favour of a post in Madras. From 1883 until his death in 1896, he was Director of the Tamil Nadu Botanical Department at Ootacamund and at Madras (formally, Director of Government ''Cinchona'' Plantations, Parks, and Gardens, Nilgiris).<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Kew Bulletin|year=1896|volume=s. 9–10|pages= 185|title=Obit. Marmaduke Alexander Lawson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-iJXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA185}}</ref> His duties included naming and arranging the Madras herbarium<ref>[http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.visual.kdcas8847 Letter from M.A.(Marmaduke Alexander) Lawson to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer; from Government Gardens, Ootacamund, Madras (Udagamandalam, Chennai, India); 10 Jan 1887] — plants.jstor.org</ref> and overseeing the production and sale of ''Cinchona'' bark from the Government ''Cinchona'' plantations in the Nilgiri Hills, Nilgiris District.
Lawson was elected F.L.S. in 1869. He was President of Section of Zoology and Botany of the British Association in 1882.
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==Eponyms== *''Pteleopsis myrtifolia'' (M.A.Lawson) Engl. & Diels<ref>[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2411149 ''Pteleopsis myrtifolia'' (M.A.Lawson) Engl. & Diels — The Plant List]</ref>
==Selected publications== *{{cite journal|author=Lawson, M. A.|year=1869|title=On the flora of Skye|journal=Journal of Botany|volume=7|pages=108–114|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PIzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA108}} *{{cite journal|author=Lawson, M. A.|author-mask=1|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ncs1.ark:/13960/t4pk0j36t;view=1up;seq=425|year=1871|title=Combretaceae|editor=D. Oliver|journal=Flora of Tropical Africa|volume=2|pages=413–436}} *{{cite journal|author=Lawson, M. A.|author-mask=1|year=1875|title=Ampelideae|journal=Flora of British India|volume=1|pages=644–668}} * {{cite journal|author=Lawson, M. A.|author-mask=1|title=Notes of a Botanical Tour in Travancore, etc.|volume=1|issue=4|journal=Records of the Botanical Survey of India|year=1896|pages=58–60|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044106340243;view=1up;seq=96}}
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==External links== {{wikispecies}} *[http://herbariaunited.org/collector/24508/ Prof Marmaduke Alexander Lawson MA FLS, collector, Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, herbariaunited.org]
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