Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (April 7, 1902–1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist.
Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal (1835-1881). In 1921 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, to read classics, but he switched to natural sciences, taking his degree in 1924 and finishing in 1925, then taking a position at Kew Gardens. He became an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology.
Selected works
- The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1975. ISBN 9780112410997.
- The Euphorbiaceae of New Guinea, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1980. ISBN 9780112411468.
References
- List of Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators
- Obituary, H. K. Airy Shaw, 1902-1985, by A. Radcliffe-Smith and R. M. Harley
- ^ Brummitt RK; Powell CE. (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
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