Max Walters

English botanist and conscientious objector (1920-2005).

Stuart Max Walters (23 May 1920 – 11 December 2005) was a British botanist and academic. Walters was educated at Penistone Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class degree in natural sciences. As a conscientious objector in the Second World War, he worked as a hospital orderly in Sheffield and Bristol. He was Curator of the Herbarium, Botany School, University of Cambridge 1949–73, Lecturer in Botany 1962–73, and for the ten years up until his retirement, 1973–83, Director of the University Botanic Garden in Cambridge, of which he wrote a history. He was a Re