British palaeobotanist (1870-1918).
Edward Alexander Newell Arber (5 August 1870, London – 14 June 1918, Cambridge) was an English botanist and paleontologist. His father was the literary scholar and anthologist Edward Arber. Arber was born at No. 5 Queen Square, Bloomsbury. Sent to Davos in Switzerland at the age of 15 for health reasons he developed an interest in botany. Returning home he studied Botany and Geology at Trinity College, Cambridge (1895-1899), where he later became a professor, specialising in palaeobotany. From 1899 until the end of his life he was appointed demonstrator in Palaeobotany in the Woodwardian [la