Template:Infobox scientist Sir Harry George Champion CIE (17 August 1891 – 20 June 1979) was a geographer and forest officer in British India who created a classification of the forest types of India and Burma.
Early life
Champion was the son of British entomologist George Charles Champion. He studied at New College, Oxford, and obtained a degree in chemistry in 1912 and then studied botany and forestry under William Schlich.[1]
Career
He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1915 and became a silviculturist at the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun staying there until 1936 before becoming a Conservator in the United Provinces. He left India in 1939 and became a Professor of Forestry at Oxford, succeeding Robert Scott Troup. Troup had offered him a position at the Imperial Forestry Institute in 1924 but Champion chose not to join it. He married Troup's secretary Crystal Parsons.[1]
Forest classification
Champion published an initial classification of the forest types of India and Burma in 1936. This was revised in 1968 by S K. Seth and this is referred to as the Champion and Seth classification of the forest types of India.[2] His younger brother F. W. Champion was also a forester in India and a pioneer in wildlife photography.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Obituary: Sir Harry Champion. Forestry({Template:Year).
- ↑ A revised survey of the forest types of India{{#if:Champion|, Champion}. Manager of Publications, Government of India(1968)