Daphne Aubertin
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Daphne Aubertin | |
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| Born | 2 January 1902 Alresford, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 14 November 1970 (aged 68) Wiltshire, England |
| Other names | Daphne Dineley |
| Alma mater | Bedford College, London |
| Occupation(s) | malacologist entomologist curator |
Daphne Aubertin, later Daphne Dineley F.L.S., F.E.S. (1902-1970), was a British malacologist and entomologist. Aubertin worked as an Assistant Keeper of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London.
Aubertin was born at Alresford, Hampshire on 2 January 1902.[1] Aubertin's parents were Queen's Bays Lt.-Col. Peter Aubertin (1846-1923) and Sybil Hooper (1870-1932), who had married at Alresford in 1893.[2] The Aubertin family were of Huguenot heritage. [3] Daphne Aubertin had an older sister named Muriel (later Palmer, 1894-1983)[4][5][6] and half-siblings Perrin and Mary, as Peter Aubertin had previously been married and widowed.[7]
Daphne Aubertin married armaments dealer Mark Dineley on 5 March 1935[8] and they had four children.
