Otto Vernon Darbishire

Otto Vernon Darbishire (16 March 1870 – 17 October 1934) was a British botanist who specialised in marine algae and lichens. Born in Conwy (Caernarfonshire, Wales), he was educated at several places and eventually graduated from the University of Oxford.

Darbishire became a lecturer in botany at several institutions. First in Kiel University in 1897, where he earned a PhD; during this time he was an assistant to Johannes Reinke, professor of botany. He was later lecturer at Manchester University from 1898 to 1909; Armstrong College; Newcastle University from 1909 to 1911; and then Bristol University. At Bristol he was the first Melville Wills Professor of Botany, from the years 1919 to 1934. Darbishire was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1920, and was president of the British Mycological Society in 1923.

He has been credited for having introduced the terms and in an 1898 monograph on the lichen genus ''Roccella''. Provided by Wikipedia