Martin cheek biography

Martin Roy Cheek (born 1960) is a botanist and taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Cheek attended the University of Reading, graduating with a B.Sc.
Martin Roy Cheek is a botanist and taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Cheek attended the University of Reading, graduating with a B.Sc.
I lead the Africa and Madagascar team within Kew's Identification and Naming department.

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CHEEK, William Martin

Personal Details

Service Number:	3903
Enlisted:	23 August 1915, Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Evandale, Tasmania, 9 April 1897
Home Town:	Evandale, Northern Midlands, Tasmania
Schooling:	Launceston Church Grammar School
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Died of Wounds, France, 27 July 1916, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval Plot XXII, Row B, Grave 4, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Evandale Municipality Roll of Honour, Evandale War Memorial, Launceston Cenotaph, Launceston Church Grammar School WW1 Honour Board

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Service History

World War 1 Service

23 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3903, 12th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tasmania
24 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 3903, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes emb • I lead the Africa and Madagascar team within Kew’s Identification and Naming department. We undertake fundamental taxonomic research and botanical inventories of underexplored areas, resulting in the discovery of hundreds of species new to science, the publication of baseline taxonomic treatments and the evaluation of the conservation status of thousands of species. We are also responsible for curating a large portion of Kew's Herbarium collections. Immediate beneficiaries of our work include government agencies and non-governmental organisations designating and managing protected areas as well as land managers in the extractive industries tasked with mitigating their impacts on biodiversity rich areas. Long-term beneficiaries include all those wishing to understand, conserve and use the plants of Africa and Madagascar. My own research is focussed on the floristics of West and Congolian Africa, especially Cameroon and Guinea. BSc (Hons), Univ. Reading, 1981 MSc, Univ. Reading, 1983 DPhil, Univ. Oxford, 1989 Chair, cross-departmental team for Wet Tropics Africa Sc • Morgan Hill publisher and writer Martin Cheek died this week at the age of 57, according to his business partner, Robert Airoldi. Cheek co-founded the bi-weekly community publication Morgan Hill Life in early 2013 and published it for more than 11 years. Prior to that, he wrote for the Gilroy Dispatch, the Morgan Hill Times and the Los Gatos Weekly-Times. Cheek was born in Hollister and graduated from Palma High School in Salinas in 1985. He attended Gavilan College, where he was the student paper’s managing editor, then its associate editor. After graduating from Gavilan, Cheek attended San Jose State University, graduating in 1990 with a journalism degree. Cheek took leave as a writer for the Morgan Hill Times and Gilroy Dispatch to run for Morgan Hill Unified school board in 2012. He also trained to become a Gilroy peace officer. He teamed with Robert Airoldi, previously with the Gilroy Dispatch, to launch Life Media Group in 2013, which published Morgan Hill Life and later Gilroy Life. Cheek co-authored “Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America From the Tyranny of Fossi Biography gavin de becker Swv coco biography King faruq biography Lynn joseph Cerioli angelo caravaggio biography Copyright ©dewpant.pages.dev 2025

23 Aug 1915:

Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3903, 12th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tasmania

24 Nov 1915:

Involvement Private, 3903, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes emb

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I lead the Africa and Madagascar team within Kew’s Identification and Naming department. We undertake fundamental taxonomic research and botanical inventories of underexplored areas, resulting in the discovery of hundreds of species new to science, the publication of baseline taxonomic treatments and the evaluation of the conservation status of thousands of species. We are also responsible for curating a large portion of Kew's Herbarium collections. Immediate beneficiaries of our work include government agencies and non-governmental organisations designating and managing protected areas as well as land managers in the extractive industries tasked with mitigating their impacts on biodiversity rich areas. Long-term beneficiaries include all those wishing to understand, conserve and use the plants of Africa and Madagascar.

My own research is focussed on the floristics of West and Congolian Africa, especially Cameroon and Guinea.

BSc (Hons), Univ. Reading, 1981
MSc, Univ. Reading, 1983
DPhil, Univ. Oxford, 1989
Chair, cross-departmental team for Wet Tropics Africa
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Morgan Hill publisher and writer Martin Cheek died this week at the age of 57, according to his business partner, Robert Airoldi.
Cheek co-founded the bi-weekly community publication Morgan Hill Life in early 2013 and published it for more than 11 years.
Prior to that, he wrote for the Gilroy Dispatch, the Morgan Hill Times and the Los Gatos Weekly-Times.
Cheek was born in Hollister and graduated from Palma High School in Salinas in 1985. He attended Gavilan College, where he was the student paper’s managing editor, then its associate editor. After graduating from Gavilan, Cheek attended San Jose State University, graduating in 1990 with a journalism degree.
Cheek took leave as a writer for the Morgan Hill Times and Gilroy Dispatch to run for Morgan Hill Unified school board in 2012. He also trained to become a Gilroy peace officer.
He teamed with Robert Airoldi, previously with the Gilroy Dispatch, to launch Life Media Group in 2013, which published Morgan Hill Life and later Gilroy Life.
Cheek co-authored “Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America From the Tyranny of Fossi