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Edgar Johnson Allen F.R.S.
1866 -1942
MBA Director 1895-1936, then Governor. Elected to the Royal Society 1914.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 25(4), pp671-684, 1943 by G.P. Bidder
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George Parker Bidder
1863 -1953
MBA Council member from 1899; MBA President 1939-1945, then Governor and Vice President. Grandson of his namesake, the "Calculating Boy".
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 34(1), pp1-13, 1955 by F.S. Russell
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Edward Thomas Browne
1866 -1937
MBA visiting worker and benefactor. MBA Council member 1913-1918; Governor 1920-1937.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 22(2), pp405-410, 1938 by E.J. Allen
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Leslie Hugh Norman Cooper F.R.S.
1905 - 1985
MBA Chemist 1930-1972; Deputy Director 1969-1972. Elected to the Royal Society 1964.
Obituary: Annual Report of the Marine Biological Association 1985/1986
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Lionel Ruttledge Crawshay
1868-1943
MBA Naturalist 1905-1920; Assistant Director 1908-1910. Returned to the MBA after war service, then in charge of sponge fisheries investigations in the British West Indies, 1920-1934. Based at the MBA 1935-1939.
Obituary: Nature 151, p665, 1943
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Ebenezer Ford
1890-1974
Fishery Naturalist; Assistant Director 1935-1949; Council 1950-1953.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 55(2), pp255-260, 1975 by F.S. Russell
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Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer F.R.S.
1862 -1950
Various appointments at Cambridge University until 1908, then Keeper of Zoology, and from 1919 Director of the British Museum (Natural History). MBA Council member 1895-1912; 1918-1923; Vice President and Governor 1934-1950. Elected to the Royal Society 1898.
Obituary: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp359-371 by W T Calman
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Stanley Wells Kemp F.R.S.
1882-1945
Director of Discovery Investigations 1924-1936; MBA Director 1936-1945. Elected to the Royal Society 1931.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 26, pp219-234, 1946 by A.C. Hardy
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Sir Edwin Ray Lankester F.R.S.
1847-1929
Honorary Secretary 1884-1890; President 1890-1929; Visited regularly during the first few years. Elected to the Royal Society 1875.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 16(2), pp365-371, 1930 by G.C. Bourne
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The MBA website has details of the Ray Lankester Investigatorship named after Edwin Ray Lankester and set up by G.P. Bidder.
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Marie Victoire Lebour
1876 -1971
MBA Zoologist 1915-1946.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 52(3), pp777-788, 1972 by F.S. Russell
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The full text of her book The Dinoflagellates of the Northern Seas is available on our webpages
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Sir Frederick Stratten Russell F.R.S.
1897-1984
MBA Zoologist 1924-1945; Director (1945-1965) and Secretary of the MBA; MBA Council Member; Vice President 1967-1984. Elected to the Royal Society 1938.
Obituary: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp461-493 by E. J. Denton and A. J. Southward,
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85(3), p.433, 2005 by Q. Bone
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The full text of his books The Medusae of the British Isles Vol. I and The Medusae of the British Isles Vol. II is available on our webpages
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Sir James Eric Smith F.R.S.
1909 -1990
Director and Secretary 1965-1974. Elected to the Royal Society 1958.
Obituary: Annual Report of the Marine Biological Association 1990
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Dr Douglas Patrick Wilson
1902-1991
MBA Zoologist 1928-1969; Aquarium Curator; Deputy Director 1958-1969; Pioneer natural history photographer.
Obituary: Annual Report of the Marine Biological Association 1991
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Click here to read "Marine Life in Focus", an article on D.P. Wilson
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John Zachary Young F.R.S.
1907-1997
Zoologist. MBA Council member almost continuously 1933-1976; Governor (Oxford University) 1945-1946; MBA President 1976-1986; Vice President 1986-1997. Elected to the Royal Society 1945.
Obituary: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 77(4), pp1261-1262, 1997 by J. Messenger
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