He was a Lecturer at the
University of Manchester from 1930 to 1936; Professor of Botany at the
University of Nottingham from 1936 to 1944; Professor of Botany at
King's College London from 1944 to 1962; Professor of Biology and Dean of the
School of Biological Sciences at the
University of East Anglia from 1962 to 1967, and Professor Emeritus of Biology at the
University of East Anglia from 1967. In Birmingham his position was filled by Prof
Charles Chesters. He was the first
executive editor of the
Journal of Experimental Botany, which published its first issue in 1950. ==Awards and honours==