Ernest Shearer

Prof Ernest Shearer FRSE (1879–1945) was a 20th century Scottish agricullturalist.

Life

He was born in Stromness on Orkney into a farming family.

In 1897 he went to Edinburgh University gaining an MA in Economics then a BSc in Agriculture in 1904. His first appointment was with the Indian Agricultural Service.

In 1911 he became Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture in Egypt. He was also appointed Principal of the College of Agriculture in Giza. In 1924 he returned to Scotland as Principal of the East of Scotland College of Agriculture and in 1926 became Professor of Agriculture at Edinburgh University.[1]

In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Alexander Lauder, Sir James Walker, Anderson Gray McKendrick, and Ralph Allan Sampson.[2]

He retired in 1944 and died on 14 September 1945.

References


  1. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/156470a0
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
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