Bob Elliott

Charles Robert "Bob" Elliott (October 15, 1927 – October 14, 2013) was a municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. Science career Although born in Edmonton, Elliott grew up in Busby, Alberta. He studied agriculture at the Vermillion School of Agriculture, now Lakeland College, and then at the University of Alberta. After completing his studies with a Ph.D. at the University of Saskatchewan, he began work at the Beaverlodge Research Station. There he developed a new variety of Creeping Red Fescue, a grass that he named Boreal in tribute to the North. He also developed two varieties of clover. Political career