Keith Holly obituary
Written by Greg Dunning
My grandfather Keith Holly, who has died aged 93, was an agriculturalist, a researcher into weeds and a campaigner.
In 1960, he was involved in establishing the Weed Research Organisation (WRO) in Begbroke, near Oxford, funded by the Agricultural Research Council. He worked with the organisation for the rest of his career, in Begbroke and further afield, and spent 1965 in Raleigh, North Carolina, on a project funded by the WK Kellogg Foundation.
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