Bertram Maurice Hobby

Following graduation, he worked as a research fellow, obtaining a DPhil in 1934 working under Edward Bagnall Poulton. He then joined the entomology department at Oxford University, retiring in 1972.

He took part in the Oxford expedition to Sarawak in 1932, and was a Fellow of Wolfson College from 1965 to 1973.

He married Marcia Prestidge in 1937, with whom he worked on the editorial board of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. He served as editor in chief from 1964 to 1981.

His hobbies included playing chess, and he was also a keen swimmer and water polo player, who served as an examiner for the Royal Life-Saving Society.^[1][2]

He was a Freemason under the United Grand Lodge of England. He was a member of both the Churchill Lodge No 478, and the Apollo University Lodge No 357 (both in Oxford),^[3]: 163 and went on to serve in the Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxfordshire, first as Provincial Grand Secretary, and then from 1971 as Deputy Provincial Grand Master.