| Administrative History | Born in 1893, Henry Marshall Steven was educated at Edinburgh University and graduated in Forestry in 1915. He was awarded a Carnegie Research Scholarship and then a Carnegie Research Fellowship, and in 1917 was appointed a Forest Statistics Officer in the Timber Supply Department. He completed his Ph.D. at Edinburgh in 1921, by which time he was a research officer in the Forestry Commission in Scotland where he stayed until 1924 and then worked in England until 1930. From 1926 to 1946 he was editor of the newly established journal ‘Forestry’, the journal of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain, of which he was elected President in 1951. Continuing his work for the Forestry Commission he moved to Aberdeen in 1933 to manage the East Scotland Division of the Commission until 1938 when he was appointed to the Chair of Forestry at the University of Aberdeen. During the Second World War he organised timber supply, and after the war became Curator of the University Library. He was awarded the CBE in 1959 and continued to participate in committee work and to undertake research on forestry until 1965. He died in Aberdeen in 1969. |
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