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3 unusual facts about E. F. Warburg


E. F. Warburg

Here his first task was to move of the herbarium from the house of its founder, George Claridge Druce, in Crick Road to the newly built botany school.

Warburg was generally known by colleagues and friends as "Heff", partly in punning references to his initlials "E. F." but also wuth the suggestion of Heffalump, for he was physically a big man.

Warburg was responsible for the introduction to cultivation of Daboecia cantabrica ssp.


Denis Greenhill, Baron Greenhill of Harrow

His later years included roles as governor of the BBC and as a director of BAT Industries, Hawker Siddeley Group, Wellcome Foundation, Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance, S.G. Warburg and Leyland International.

Pujo Committee

The Pujo Report singled out individual bankers including Paul Warburg, Jacob H. Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Frank E. Peabody, William Rockefeller and Benjamin Strong, Jr..


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