Arthur Edmund Muskett

Arthur Edmund Muskett (1900 to 1984) was a British phytopathologist and mycologist, born in Norwich and raised on his father's farm near Ashwellthorpe. After a year as a Royal Air Force pilot he studied at Imperial College London, switching from chemistry to botany and graduating in 1922. In 1923 he moved to Northern Ireland, where he rose from assistant to lecturer in agricultural botany at Queen's University Belfast and was professor of agricultural plant pathology there from 1945 until he retired as professor emeritus in 1966, while also holding appointments with the Ministry of Agriculture in its Seed Testing and Plant Disease Division. He was president of the British Mycological Society for the year 1948 to 1949 and is noteworthy as a broadcaster who contributed to the Ulster Garden radio programme.