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Director Of The Natural History Museum
{{short description, None The Director of the Natural History Museum is the senior manager of the Natural History Museum, London, which was split off from the British Museum in 1881. It should not be confused with the role of Director of Science, Natural History Museum. The following list gives the first Superintendent and then the Directors of the Natural History Museum, London.Natural History Museum archive catalogueDirectorate(1838-2012), Reference number: DF DIR Superintendent of the Natural History Departments * Sir Richard Owen (1881–1883) Directors of the Natural History Museum * Sir William Henry Flower (1884–1898) * Sir Ray Lankester (1898–1907) * Sir Lazarus Fletcher (1909–1919) * Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer (1919-1927) * Charles Tate Regan (1927-1938) * Sir Clive Forster-Cooper (1938–1947) * Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear (1947-1950) * Sir Gavin de Beer (1950–1960) * Sir Terence Morrison-Scott (1960–1968) * Sir Frank Claringbull (1968–1976) * Ronald He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a ''cathedral of nature''—both exemplified by the large ''Diplodocus'' cast that domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Boyd Kinnear
Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear (11 August 1882 – 11 August 1957) was a Scottish zoologist and ornithologist. Early life Kinnear was the younger son of the wealthy Edinburgh architect Charles George Hood Kinnear and his wife Jessie Jane and came from the same banking family ( Thomas Kinnear & Company) as Sir William Jardine (Kinnear's great-grandfather). Kinnear studied at Edinburgh Academy before moving to Trinity College, Glenalmond. He worked as an assistant in an estate in Lanarkshire before he followed his interest in natural history and volunteered at the Royal Scottish Museum with W. Eagle Clarke in 1905–1907. He joined Eagle Clarke to Fair Isle. In 1907, he went aboard a whaling ship around Greenland to collect bird specimens. Career On a recommendation by William Eagle Clarke, he went to India to become curator of the museum of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), a position he held from 1 November 1907 to November 1919. He was also assistant editor of the ''Jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Gurr
Douglas John Gurr (born July 1964) is a British businessman, and the Director of the Natural History Museum, London. He was a global vice-president and head of Amazon UK from 2016 to 2020. He is chairman of the British Heart Foundation. He formerly taught at Aarhus University and held positions in the United Kingdom civil service, at McKinsey & Co, and at Asda. Early life and education Gurr was born in Leeds, England, in July 1964, to parents from New Zealand, and his father was head of the English department at the University of Nairobi. He was educated at the University of Cambridge where he studied the Mathematical Tripos and the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in 1990 for research on semantic frameworks using monads supervised by Gordon Plotkin. Career Gurr began his career as an academic teaching maths and computing at the Aarhus University in Denmark, before working for the United Kingdom's Civil Service. Gurr then worked for McKinsey & Co, for six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dixon (museum Director)
Sir Michael Dixon (born 16 March 1956) is the principal of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford and former director of the Natural History Museum, London. Early life Dixon was born on 16 March 1956. He was educated at Tiffin School, a boys grammar school in Kingston upon Thames. He studied at Imperial College London, graduating Bachelor of Science (BSc) and was awarded Associateship of the Royal College of Science (ARCS). He undertook postgraduate studies at the University of York, completing his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1984. Career He was director general of the Zoological Society of London and became director of the Natural History Museum on 1 June 2004. The appointment of Dixon at the NHM is noteworthy in its marking a break with tradition in which the director has been an eminent practising scientist. As of 2015, Dixon was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999 by the Natural History Museum, making him one of the 328 most highly p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Chalmers
Sir Neil Robert Chalmers (born 19 June 1942) is a British zoologist and academic. He is a former Director of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum in London, and former Warden of Wadham College, warden of Wadham College, Oxford. Early life Chalmers was educated at King's College School, Magdalen College, Oxford (BA), and St John's College, Cambridge (PhD).''Museum keeper with a dash of Disney'' The Guardian, 11 March 2004 Academic career From 1966 to 1969, Chalmers lectured in zoology at Makarere University College, Kampala, Uganda, and was scientific director at the National Primate Reserve Centre, Nairobi, Kenya from 1969 until 1970. From 1970 until 1988 he worked for the Open University, first as a lecturer, later as dean of science. He was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Henderson Hedley
Ronald Henderson Hedley CB FZS (2 November 1928 – 11 July 2006) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Natural History Museum from 1976 to 1988. Career Hedley was first employed at the Natural History Museum in 1955. In 1971, he was appointed Deputy Director of the museum and in 1976 became Director of the museum. In 1988 Hedley retired from the Natural History Museum. From 1977 to 1980, Hedley was the honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London. Personal life Hedley was born on 2 November 1928 to Henry Armstrong Hedley and Margaret Hopper. He was educated at Durham Johnston School, followed by King's College at Durham University (now Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...), where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Zool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Claringbull
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri, United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Morrison-Scott
Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott (24 October 1908 – 25 November 1991) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Science Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in London, England.CranbrookScott, Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison– (1908–1991) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press, September2004. Morrison-Scott was born in Paris and educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford, and the Royal College of Science. He rowed at Eton and Oxford, winning the Silver Sculls at Oxford. He graduated from the RCS in 1935 with a first class degree and then worked briefly as an assistant master at Eton (1935–36). Morrison-Scott was appointed as an Assistant Keeper (2nd class) in Department of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) on 1 October 1936. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin De Beer
Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book ''Embryos and Ancestors''. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution. Biography Born on 1 November 1899 in Malden, Surrey (now part of London), de Beer spent most of his childhood in France, where he was educated at the Parisian École Pascal. During this time, he also visited Switzerland, a country with which he remained fascinated for the rest of his life. His education continued at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in zoology in 1921, after a pause to serve in the First World War in the Grenadier Guards and the Army Education Corps. In 1923 he was made a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and began to teach at the university's zoology depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Forster-Cooper
Sir Clive Forster Cooper, FRS (3 April 1880 – 23 August 1947) was an English palaeontologist and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum in London. He was the first to describe ''Paraceratherium'', also commonly known as ''Indricotherium'' or ''Baluchitherium'', the largest known land mammal. Early life He was born on 3 April 1880 in Hampstead, London, the second child and only son of John Forster Cooper and his wife Mary Emily Miley. His maternal grandfather, Miles Miley, was an amateur botanist and naturalist, and encouraged Clive Forster-Cooper in his interest in natural history. He was educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, Rugby School.'Forster-Cooper, Sir Clive', in ''Who Was Who'' In 1897 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and took a BA in 1901 and Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), MA in 1904. Early career In 1900, Forster Cooper travelled with John Stanley Gardiner to the Maldive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge. The museum was established in 1753, largely b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Tate Regan
Charles Tate Regan FRS (1 February 1878 – 12 January 1943) was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century. He did extensive work on fish classification schemes. Born in Sherborne, Dorset, he was educated at Derby School and Queens' College, Cambridge and in 1901 joined the staff of the Natural History Museum, where he became Keeper of Zoology, and later director of the entire museum, in which role he served from 1927 to 1938. Regan was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917. Regan mentored a number of scientists, among them Ethelwynn Trewavas, who continued his work at the British Natural History Museum. Species Among the species he described is the Siamese fighting fish (''Betta splendens''). In turn, a number of fish species have been named ''regani'' in his honour: *A Thorny Catfish '' Anadoras regani'' (Steindachner, 1908) *The Dwarf Cichlid '' Apistogramma regani'' *'' Apogon regani'' *A Catfish '' Astroblepus regani'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
