Gladys Le Mare
British zoologist
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Gladys Le Mare (née Keay; 1912–1967) was a British zoologist and a founder of the Malaysian Nature Society.
Gladys Le Mare | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gladys Keay 29 December 1912 |
| Died | 28 June 1967 (aged 54) |
| Education | St Hugh's College, Oxford |
Early life and education
Le Mare was born on 29 December 1912, the second of three daughters of Richard and Frances Ann Keay.[1][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 Asst 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
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.