In the summer of 1845, the Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley, the rector of All Saints' church, proposed, after observing potatoes from near the village struck by potato blight, that the causative agent of the blight was a fungus.
In the summer of 1845, Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley, the rector of All Saints' Church, suggested that the cause of potato blight was a fungus after noticing potatoes in his area affected by the disease.