Eric Frederic Drabble

Eric Frederic Drabble FLS (1877–1933) was a British botanist and leading authority on British Viola.^[1]

Eric Frederic Drabble
Born	1877 Hasland, Derbyshire
Died	3 August 1933(1933-08-03) (aged 55–56) Totland Bay near Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Nationality	British
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)	Drabble

Drabble was a lecturer in botany at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1901 to 1903. In 1903 he graduated with a DSc from the University of London. He was a lecturer from 1903 to 1905 at the Royal College of Science. He then moved to Liverpool University where he was a lecturer from 1905 to 1906;^[1] there Drabble and Leo Farmar were the two members of the economic botany section of the scientific staff of Liverpool University's Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics.^[2] Drabble was a lecturer at Northern Polytechnic Institute from 1906 to 1924.^[1]

In 1906 Drabble married Hilda Lake (1881–1965), a daughter of Thomas Henry Lake, who was a miller and corn merchant in Truro.^[3] Before their marriage, Eric and Hilda collected botanical specimens together. As a married couple, they jointly published a number of papers, sometimes with other co-authors.^[4] When Eric Drabble died in 1933, his estate was valued at £6,387.^[3]