Herbert Holdsworth Ross (3 March 1908 – 2 November 1978) was a British-Canadian systematic

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He was the author of an influential ''textbook of entomology'' first published in 1949. He worked on many insect groups but was widely recognized for his work on the Trichoptera. Ross was born to Jonathan and Jessie Holdsworth in

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

. The family moved to

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where Ross was educated. He graduated from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

in 1927 and then studied at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. receiving an MS in 1929 and a PhD in 1933. He worked as a systematic entomologist with the

Illinois Natural History Survey The Illinois Natural History Survey (abbreviated as INHS), located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, is an active research institution with over 200 staff members, and it maintains one of the ...

and served as a professor of entomology at the University from 1947 to 1969. He married Jean Alexander in 1933 and she collaborated in many of his researches.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Herbert Holdsworth University of British Columbia alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni 1908 births 1978 deaths People from Leeds Canadian entomologists 20th-century Canadian zoologists Presidents of the Entomological Society of America British emigrants to Canada Canadian expatriates in the United States