Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby

The Right Honourable Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby FRS
Ashby in June 1958.
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 6 July 1973 – 22 October 1992 Life Peerage
5th Chancellor of the Queen's University Belfast
In office 1970–1983
Preceded by	Sir Tyrone Guthrie
Succeeded by	Sir Rowland Wright
Personal details
Born	Eric Ashby (1904-08-24)24 August 1904 Leytonstone, Essex, England
Died	22 October 1992(1992-10-22) (aged 88)
Spouse	Elizabeth Helen Margaret Farries
Alma mater	City of London School Royal College of Science

Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, FRS^[1] (24 August 1904 – 22 October 1992) was a British botanist and educator.

Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the City of London School and the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929. In 1929, he received a Harkness Fellowship to the University of Chicago.^[2] Ashby was a lecturer at Imperial College from 1931 to 1935, and at the University of Bristol from 1935 to 1938.^{[citation needed]}