Allen, Edgar Johnson (1866–1942), marine zoologist and scientific administrator, was born on 6 April 1866 at 6 Havelock Terrace, Preston, Lancashire, the son of the Revd Richard Allen, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and his wife, Emma Johnson, daughter of a Bideford shipbuilder. They had three daughters and five sons, of whom ...
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Allen, Edgar Johnson (1866–1942), marine zoologist and scientific administrator
Margaret Deacon
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Barrett, Lucas (1837–1862), geologist and oceanographer
Stephen K. Donovan
Barrett, Lucas (1837–1862), geologist and oceanographer, was born on 14 November 1837, the eldest son of George Barrett, a London iron-founder. In 1847 he was sent to Mr P. Ashton's school in Royston, Hertfordshire, where he collected fossils from the local chalk pits as a hobby. Four years later he transferred to ...
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Berkeley [formerly Bergtheil; née Dunington], Edith (1875–1963), marine biologist
Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley
Berkeley [formerly Bergtheil; née Dunington], Edith (1875–1963), marine biologist, was born on 1 September 1875 in Tulbagh, Cape of Good Hope, the older daughter of Alfred Dunington, civil engineer, and his wife, Martha Treglohan (c.1837–c.1927). Having spent her early childhood abroad, and having had private tutors in the ...
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Bidder, George Parker (1863–1953), marine biologist
Catharine M. C. Haines
Bidder, George Parker (1863–1953), marine biologist, was born on 21 May 1863 in Kensington, London, the elder son of George Parker Bidder QC (1836–1896), of Lincoln's Inn, amateur astronomer and cryptographer, and his wife, Anna, second daughter of John Robinson McClean, civil engineer and MP. ...
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Buchanan, John Young (1844–1925), chemist and oceanographer
Margaret Deacon
Buchanan, John Young (1844–1925), chemist and oceanographer, was born at Dowanhill, Glasgow, on 20 February 1844, the son of John Buchanan of Dowanhill (1807–1876), a merchant, and his wife, Jane (d. 1899), the daughter of John Young of Rowmore, Dunbartonshire. Both his parents came from prosperous ...
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Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp (1907–1980), marine geophysicist
Richard J. Howarth
Bullard, Sir Edward Crisp (1907–1980), marine geophysicist, was born on 21 September 1907 at 1 Heigham Grove, Earlham Road, Heigham, Norwich, the only son and eldest of four children, of whom the last were twins, of Edward John Bullard (1875–1950), a Norwich brewer, and his wife, ...
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Charnock, Henry (1920–1997), meteorologist and marine scientist
D. E. Cartwright
Charnock, Henry (1920–1997), meteorologist and marine scientist, was born on 25 December 1920 in Blackburn, Lancashire, the only son and elder child of Henry Charnock (1892–1946), a clerk in an engineering works, and his wife, Mary Gray, née McLeod (1894–1981). His father was of ...
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Charnock, Henry (1920–1997)
Maker: Godfrey Argent
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Henry Charnock (1920–1997) by Godfrey Argent Camera Press, London
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Cushing, David Henry (1920–2008), marine ecologist
Joseph Horwood
Cushing, David Henry (1920–2008), marine ecologist, was born on 14 March 1920 at 10 Prudhoe Street, Alnwick, Northumberland, the son of William Ewart Wittrick Cushing (1891–1980), schoolmaster, and his wife, Isobel, née Batchelder (1892–1988). He attended Duke's School, Alnwick, and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne...
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Deacon, Sir George Edward Raven (1906–1984), oceanographer
H. Charnock
revised by Elizabeth Baigent
Deacon, Sir George Edward Raven (1906–1984), oceanographer, was born on 21 March 1906 at 81 Bosworth Road, Leicester, the younger child and only son of George Raven Deacon (1866–1954), a boot and shoe factory worker, of Leicester, and his wife, Emma (1868–1957), worker in a hat factory, daughter of ...
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Denton, Sir Eric James (1923–2007), marine biologist and physiologist
Colin Brownlee
Denton, Sir Eric James (1923–2007), marine biologist and physiologist, was born on 30 September 1923 at 53 Denby Street, Bentley, Yorkshire, the only child of George Denton, a fitter at a colliery, later a grocer, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Ogden, who ran a dress shop. He won a scholarship to ...
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Doodson, Arthur Thomas (1890–1968), mathematician and oceanographer
H. Charnock
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Doodson, Arthur Thomas (1890–1968), mathematician and oceanographer, was born at Boothstown, near Worsley, in Lancashire, on 31 March 1890, the second son of Thomas Doodson, the manager of a cotton mill in Boothstown, who later moved to Rochdale and then to Shaw, near ...
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Fritsch, Felix Eugen (1879–1954), algologist
F. M. Haines
revised by Peter Osborne
Fritsch, Felix Eugen (1879–1954), algologist, was born on 26 April 1879 at 15 Princess Terrace, St Pancras, London, the second child of Ernst Theodor Hermann Fritsch, headmaster of a private school at 145 King Henry's Road, Hampstead, and his wife, Josephine Guignon (...
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Gray [née Smith], Maria Emma (1787–1876), conchologist and algologist
G. S. Boulger
revised by P. E. Kell
Gray [née Smith], Maria Emma (1787–1876), conchologist and algologist, was born at the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, Kent, the daughter of Lieutenant Henry Smith RN, who was then resident there. In 1812 she married Francis Edward Gray, who died two years later; they had two daughters. In 1826 she married her late husband's second cousin, ...
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Gray, Maria Emma (1787–1876)
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Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876) by George J. Stodart (after John Ayling) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Harrison, Sir Richard John (1920–1999), anatomist and marine biologist
Gordon Wright
Harrison, Sir Richard John (1920–1999), anatomist and marine biologist, was born on 8 October 1920 at 30 Carson Road, Norwood, London, the son of Geoffrey Arthur Harrison, reader in chemical pathology at London University (St Bartholomew's), and Theodora Beatrice Mary, née West. From ...
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Hart, Thomas John (1907–1970), marine biologist
G. E. Fogg
Hart, Thomas John (1907–1970), marine biologist, was born on 17 September 1907 at Cintra Lodge, Little Shelford, near Cambridge, the eldest of the four sons of John Henry Arthur Hart (1876–1952), theological lecturer and librarian of St John's College, Cambridge, and later a clergyman, and his wife, ...
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Harvey, Hildebrand Wolfe (1887–1970), marine biologist
L. H. N. Cooper
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Harvey, Hildebrand Wolfe (1887–1970), marine biologist, was born on 31 December 1887 in Streatham, London, the elder son of Henry Allington Harvey, paint manufacturer in the firm of Foster, Mason, and Harvey of Mitcham, Surrey, and his wife, Laetitia, daughter of Peter Kingsley Wolfe...
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Herdman, Sir William Abbott (1858–1924), marine zoologist
R. N. Rudmose Brown
revised by Margaret Deacon
Herdman, Sir William Abbott (1858–1924), marine zoologist, was born at 32 Danube Street, Edinburgh, on 8 September 1858, the eldest of the four sons of the artist Robert Herdman (1828–1888), and his wife, Emma, née Abbott, of Maryborough, Queen's county, Ireland. He was educated at ...
