Arthur Edmund Muskett
Arthur Edmund Muskett (15 April 1900, Norwich – 22 October 1984, Belfast) was a British phytopathologist and mycologist. He is noteworthy as a broadcaster who contributed to the Ulster Garden radio programme and as the president of the British Mycological Society for a one-year term from 1948 to 1949. Education and career Muskett grew up on his father’s farm close to the village of Ashwellthorpe, about 20 km S.W. of Norwich. After education at the City of Norwich School, he joined in 1918 the Royal Air Force and served for a year as a pilot. In 1919 he matriculated at Imperial College London. There he studied chemistry for 2 years, before John Bretland Farmer persuaded him to switch to botany. Muskett graduated in 1922 with a B.Sc. in botany from Imperial College London. In 1923 Muskett moved to Northern Ireland. In the department of agricultural botany of Queen's University Belfast (QUB) he was an assistant from 1923 to 1926, an assistant lecturer from 1926 to 1928, and a lecturer from 1928 to 1941. In QUB's department of mycology and plant pathology, he was a lecturer in charge of the department from 1941 to 1945. He was a professor of agricultural