Gladys Le Mare
| Gladys Le Mare | |
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| Born | Gladys Keay December 29, 1912[1] |
| June 28, 1967 (aged 54)June 28, 1967 (aged 54) | |
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Gladys Le Mare, née Keay (1912–1967), was a British zoologist and a founder of the Malaysian Nature Society.
Early life and education
Le Mare (born December 29, 1912) was the second of three daughters of Richard and Frances Ann Keay.[2][3] She attended Hanley High School[4] and graduated from St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1934 with first-class honours in zoology.[1] She taught biology at Westcliff High School for Girls and St. Anne's College, Natal, in South Africa, before leaving for Singapore in 1939 to marry Deryck Watts Le Mare (1912–1967), then Assistant Director of Fisheries, Straits Settlements.[5][6]
Malaysian work
In 1940, Le Mare became one of the founders of the Malaysian Nature Society[7] and the founding editor of the Malayan Nature Journal.[5][8][9] During World War II, she worked in a military hospital in Singapore, leaving the city ten days before the Fall of Singapore, and reaching England by May 1942.[2] The Malayan Nature Journal resumed publication in 1947, with Le Mare continuing as editor.[8][9] In 1950, she became supervisor of the blood transfusion unit of the General Hospital in Penang.[1] She returned to England in about 1956.[1]
Research
Le Mare, publishing as Keay, was known for her work on mites.[10][11]
Selected publications
- Elton, Charles; Keay, Gladys (1936). "The seasonal occurrence of harvest mites (Trombicula autumnalis Shaw) on voles and mice near Oxford". Parasitology. 28: 110–114. doi:10.1017/S0031182000022307.
- Keay, Gladys (1937). "The Ecology of the Harvest Mite (Trombicula autumnalis) in the British Isles". Journal of Animal Ecology. 6 (1): 23–35. Bibcode:1937JAnEc...6...23K. doi:10.2307/1056. ISSN 0021-8790. JSTOR 1056.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Soutter, Ann M.; Clapinson, Mary, eds. (2011). St. Hugh's College Register 1886-1959. Oxford: St Hugh's College. pp. 136–137. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "HOME FROM SINGAPORE: HANLEY LADY'S EXPERIENCES". Staffordshire Sentinel. 2 May 1942. p. 1. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ↑ "Funeral of Mrs. F. A. Keay". Staffordshire Sentinel. 18 April 1960. p. 6. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ↑ "Scholarship Successes". Staffordshire Sentinel. 27 January 1931. p. 4. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
Two pupils of Hanley High School have recently gained scholarships at Oxford - Gladys Keay an exhibition in biology at St. Hugh's College.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "A Nature Journal". Staffordshire Sentinel. 16 January 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ↑ Taylor, Ron. "Deryck and Gladys Le Mare". Far Eastern Heroes. RJT Internet Services. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
- ↑ "Malayan Nature Journal Special Edition 2019". shopmns.easy.co. Retrieved April 4, 2025.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Guérin, Mathieu (2017). "Bridging British Malaya and Malaysia. The Malayan Nature Society and Nature Conservation" (PDF). Malayan Nature Journal. Special Edition: 1–19. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "About The Malayan Nature Journal". mnj.my. The Malayan Nature Journal. Retrieved April 4, 2025.
- ↑ Middleton, A. D. (1937). "Journal of Animal Ecology". Journal of Ecology. 25 (2): 571. Bibcode:1937JEcol..25..571M. doi:10.2307/2256210. ISSN 0022-0477. JSTOR 2256210.
- ↑ Andre, Marc (1939). Internet Archive. "Sur l'apparition tardive des Aoutats en 1938". Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France (in French). 44 (1): 16–17. Bibcode:1939AnSEF..44...16A. doi:10.3406/bsef.1939.15337.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
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