Edward Cocking

Edward Charles Daniel Cocking FRS (26 September 1931 – 14 July 2023^[1]), known as Ted Cocking, was a British plant scientist, and Emeritus Professor at University of Nottingham.^[2]

He was on the Board of Trustees of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1983 to 1993.^[3] He was on the Board of Directors of Lawes Agricultural Trust Company^[4] and was a foreign fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.^[5]