Geoffrey Emett Blackman, 17 April 1903 - 8 February 1980

Abstract

Geoffrey Blackman was born on 17 April 1903 at Scarsdale Villas, Kensington. His father, Vernon Herbert Blackman (elected F.R.S. in 1913), was then an assistant in the Mycological section of the British Museum (Natural History) where he was responsible for the collections of fungi and the accession of new material. His mother, Edith Delta née Emett, who came from a Gloucestershire family, was at the time of her marriage engaged in preparing wax models of biological subjects for the museum. Sir Ray Lankester sent her to see Blackman for advice on the scientific accuracy of her work, and they married in 1901