18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Edith Leather Osborn    
                Born:  4 Mar 1868          in Hampshire  1,2,3 (see note 1)
              Census: 1871                 in Surrey   (see note 2)
             Resided: 1933 - 1946          at The Nook, 17 Luard Road, Trumpington  2,4,5,6
                Died: 1946                 in Cambridge  7 (see note 3)
              Father: George Richard Osborn   (1834 -     ) 
              Mother: Eliza Keeling   (1831 -     ) 
             Husband: Charles Alfred Barber     
             Married: 1893                 in London  1 (see note 4)
                Born: ABT 1860             in South Africa  8
           Education:                      Christ's College, Cambridge  8 (see note 5)
          Occupation:                      Agricultural Botanist  8
                Died: 1933                 in Cambridge  5,1 (see note 6)
              Father: William Barber 

Sources:
(1) FreeBMD website. 
(2) 1939 Register. 
(3) GRO index. 
(4) Spalding's Directory (Kelly's after WW2) 
(5) Probate record. 
(6) Electoral Register. 
(7) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(8) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Jun 1868 South Stoneham 2c 49   mothers surname Keeling
Note (2) Age 3, born South Stoneham, with family
Note (3) Dec 1946 Cambridge 4a 203   age 78
Note (4) Sep 1893 Wandsworth 1d 1306
Note (5) Name 	Charles Alfred. Barber
College 	CHRIST'S
Entered 	Michs. 1884
Born 	Nov. 10, 1860
Died 	Feb. 23, 1933
More Information 	Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Oct. 6, 1884. S. of William,
Wesleyan minister. B. Nov. 10, 1860, at Wynberg, Cape Town. School, New
Kingswood, Bath; afterwards at Bonn University, 1883-4. Matric. Michs. 1884;
Scholar, 1885; (Nat. Sci. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class, 1887; Pt II, 1st Class, 1888);
B.A. 1888; M.A. 1892; Sc.D. 1908. University Demonstrator in Botany, 1889-91.
Superintendent of the Botanical Stations in the Leeward Islands, 1892-6.
Lecturer in Botany at the Royal Engineering College, Cooper's Hill, 1896-8.
Government Botanist, Madras Presidency, 1898-1912. Director of Botanical Survey
of Southern India, 1898-1908. Head of the Agricultural College, Coimbatore,
1908. Sugar-cane expert to the Government of India, 1912-19. University Lecturer
on Tropical Agriculture, 1919. C.I.E., 1918. A distinguished investigator of
morphological problems. Did much exploratory botanical work while in the
tropics, which has been utilised in Gamble's Flora. Published an important
series of studies in parasitism of green trees in the Memoirs of the Department
of Agriculture, India. Awarded the Maynard Ganga Ram Prize for Indian research,
1931. Died Feb. 23, 1933, aged 72, at Cambridge. Brother of William T. A.
(1876). (Peile, II. 710; The Times, Feb. 24, 1933.)
Note (6) Mar 1933 Cambridge 3b 696   age 72

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