Brian John Marples
Brian John Marples (31 March 1907 – 1997) was a British zoologist who spent most of his career in New Zealand.
Early years
Marples was born in Hessle, Yorkshire, in north-eastern England. He was educated at Kingsmead in Cheshire, and St Bees in Cumberland before attending Exeter College at Oxford University. He graduated as a BA from Exeter in 1929, subsequently obtaining a MSc from the University of Manchester in 1931, and MA from Exeter in 1933. He married Mary (Molly) Joyce Ransford in 1931.[1]
Career
From 1930 to 1936 Marples worked as Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at Manchester. In 1937 he went to New Zealand to become Professor of Zoology at the University of Otago, a position he served in for 30 years before retiring in 1967 to Woodstock, near Oxford in southern England. He published numerous papers on a wide variety of zoological topics, especially in the areas of ornithology, arachnology and fossil penguins.[1]
References
- ^ a b Fordyce, Ewan (2012). "Brian John Marples BA MA MSc FRSNZ FAZ". 2000 Academy Yearbook. Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
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