British botanist & bryologist (1917-2000).
Harold Leslie Keer Whitehouse (13 April 1917 – 18 January 2000) was a British botanist and bryologist. He is credited with a discovery of a number of species, as well as with being a president of the British Bryological Society. Whitehouse was born in Churchdown, Gloucestershire, Great Britain. His father, Arnold Arthur Gray Whitehouse, was a schoolteacher and a Cambridge graduate in mathematics, and Harold Leslie Keer Whitehouse had two brothers, an older and a younger one. Harold Whitehouse entered Queen’s College, University of Cambridge in 1936, and eventually started a PhD in biology unde