Stan Woodell (died 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.

Stanley Reginald John Woodell obtained a PhD from the University of Durham. He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.

As a botanist, Woodell co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.

Woodell died aged 75. A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.

References

• John Killick, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell, Flora of Oxfordshire (Pisces Publications, 1998, ISBN 1-874357-07-2).

External links

• Oxford University Gazette notice
• Wolfson College notice
• Memorial Tree Planting

Year of birth missing | 2004 deaths | English botanists | English librarians | English non-fiction writers | British nature writers | Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford