Stanley Reginald John Woodell (1928 â 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.
Woodell was born in Shepherd's Bush, London.
He obtained a degree in Botany from Durham University. An undergraduate at Hatfield College, Woodell was a member of the Durham University Exploration Society. He studied the pollination biology of the genus Primula for his PhD at the same university.
Woodell was a King George VI Fellow at North Carolina State University (1956âÂÂ57). He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959âÂÂ88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967âÂÂ88), Fellow (1988âÂÂ89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989âÂÂ2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.
As a botanist, Woodell co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire published in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.
Woodell died aged 75. A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.