Scottish botanist (1942–2022).
Christopher Nigel Page (1942–2022) was an English botanist who specialised in ferns and spermatophytes. He also worked on conifers, naming species of Afrocarpus, for example Afrocarpus dawei and Afrocarpus gracilior, Sundacarpus and Retrophyllum. He read botany at Durham University then gained a PhD at Newcastle University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship from 1968 to 1970 at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, working on Queensland pteridophytes, before returning to the UK to work at Oxford University for a year. In 1971 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society and that same ye