English botanist (1897-1943).
Cecil Victor Boley Marquand (1897–1943) was a prominent English botanist. Cecil Marquand was born at Richmond, Surrey, on 7 June 1897. He was the only son of Ernest David Marquand, the author of a Flora of Guernsey. Educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, from 1906 to 1910, he attended Lycée Henri-IV in Paris for a year before entering Bedford School (1911-1913). Marquand then went to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1919, proceeding to M.A. in 1922. Marquand's education was interrupted by service in the British Army during World War I. He first served in the Machine G