Sir Geoff Palmer, who has died aged 85, was a son of the Windrush generation who became a grain scientist of global renown and, in his later life, an equally distinguished campaigner for racial equality and historical awareness.
Most of his career was spent in Scotland, where he arrived in 1964 as a research student, when even renting a room was not easy. “As I walked up the path I’d see the curtain move and by the time I got to the door, I was told the room had been taken.”
