Brink-Whitelaw Family

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Brink-Whitelaw Family

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        Dr. Royal Alexander Brink (1897-1984) was born in Oxford County, Ontario, the son of Royal Wilson Brink (1855-1945) and Elizabeth Ann Cuthbert (1855-1909). He was a graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College (now part of the University of Guelph) in 1919. In 1922 he married Edith Margaret Whitelaw (1896-1962), also an Oxford County, Ontario native, the daughter of Andrew Oscar Whitelaw (1867-1931) and Jean Alexandra Gunn (1869-1934). Edith had graduated from the Macdonald Institute, then part of the Ontario Agricultural College. Appointed to the faculty of the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin at Maddison in 1922, Dr. Brink became a major contributor to the field of genetics and to the improvement of major crop plants.

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