Gladys Le Mare
Gladys Le Mare | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gladys Keay December 29, 1912[1] |
| Died | June 28, 1967 (aged 54) |
Gladys Le Mare, née Keay (1912 – 1967) was a British zoologist and a founder of the Malaysian Nature Society.
Early life and education
[edit]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 Asst Director of Fisheries, Straits Settlements.[5][6]
Malaysian work
[edit]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
[edit]Le Mare, publishing as Keay, was known for her work on mites.[10][11]
Selected publications
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d Soutter, Ann M.; Clapinson, Mary, eds. (2011). St. Hugh's College Register 1886-1959. Oxford: St Hugh's College. pp. 136–137.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b "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 9 August 2020.
- ^ "Malayan Nature Journal Special Edition 2019". shopmns.easy.co. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b "About The Malayan Nature Journal". mnj.my. The Malayan Nature Journal. Retrieved 4 April 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). "Sur l'apparition tardive des Aoutats en 1938". Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France (in French). 44 (1). Internet Archive: 16–17. Bibcode:1939AnSEF..44...16A. doi:10.3406/bsef.1939.15337.
- 1912 births
- 1967 deaths
- British science writers
- Malaysian non-fiction writers
- Malaysian biologists
- Malaysian women writers
- British women science writers
- British women zoologists
- Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
- People from the Straits Settlements
- 20th-century British zoologists
- 20th-century Malaysian people
- 20th-century British non-fiction writers
- 20th-century British women scientists
- 20th-century English women writers
- British women magazine editors
- British expatriates in South Africa
- British emigrants to Malaysia