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All extra details are based on information supplied by the College Archivist (see Additional Information). This included the following biographical details: ' (1907) Born 13 December 1887, Matlock House, 126 Green Lanes, Stoke Newington, London; son of Robert Laidlaw, Government Doctor and JP, Seychelles, and Elizabeth Playfair Subject(s): Natural Sciences; BA 1910; MA 1914, Tutor(s): L H K Bushe-Fox, Johnian Relatives: brother of George Muir Laidlaw (1897) and of Patrick Playfair Laidlaw (1900); brother-in-law of James Fraser (1901); brother of Hugh Alexander Lyon Laidlaw (1904) and of Walter Sibbald Laidlaw (1909); uncle of Christophor Charles Fraser Laidlaw (1940} Educ: Perse School, Cambridge, Career: Research in Plant Physiology, Imperial College of Science and Technology 1912-1914; Private, London Scottish Regiment 1914-1915, Awards: Minor Scholarship, SJC 1906;
Foundation Scholarship, SJC 1909; Hutchinson Studentship, SJC 1911; Research Scholarship, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 1912, Publications: (with R C Knight) 'A description of a recording porometer and a note of stomatal behaviour during wilting', Annals of Botany, Vol XXX, No CXVII, 1916, Died 3 April 1915 (from wounds received in action at Richebourg l' Avoue on 2 April).' His brother, Walter, is also listed on this memorial.