Malcolm Burr (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954) was an English author, translator, entomologist, and geologist. He taught English at the School of Economics in
Istanbul
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, and spent most of his life in Turkey.
Life
Burr was a noted specialist of earwigs (
Dermaptera
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forcep-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folded ...
) and crickets and grasshoppers (
Orthoptera
Orthoptera () is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā. The order is subdivided into two suborders: Caelifera – grassho ...
). He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs, and the diversity and biology of the
earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901.
He also met and befriended the
White émigré
White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik commun ...
Paul Nazaroff
Paul Nazaroff (Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov; Russian: Па́вел Степа́нович Наза́ров; died 1942) was a Russian geologist and writer who was caught up in the Russian Revolution, and became the leader of a plot to overthrow Bolshe ...
, whose works he translated from Russian into English (including ''Hunted through Central Asia'').
Private life
He married Clara Millicent Goode in 1903 and they had four daughters,
Gabrille Ruth Millicent, Rowena Frances, Yolanda Elizabeth and another.
Bibliography
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Dersu the Trapper (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Secker & Warburg, London 1939 (First English edition)
See also
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Epilandex burri'', a species of earwig named after Burr
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List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1910–14)
References
External links
Malcolm Burrat the
National Portrait Gallery, London
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1878 births
1954 deaths
English translators
English geologists
English writers
Entomologists from London
People from Blackheath, London