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Brian John Marples

New Zealand zoologist (1907–1997)

Brian John Marples FRSNZ (31 March 1907 – 1997) was a British zoologist who spent most of his career in New Zealand.²

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Born Mar 31, 1907, died Oct 1997.¹

Companies

Ornithological Society of New ZealandFounder¹⁷

Early life and education

Date not recordedExeter College³
Date not recordedSt. Bees School³
Date not recordedUniversity of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Master of Science^{3 4}

Marples was born in Hessle, Yorkshire, in north-eastern England. His parents were Annie and George Marples. His father was a teacher of art, and he had an older brother, Morris Marples.

He was educated at Kingsmead in Cheshire, and St Bees in Cumberland before attending Exeter College, Oxford. He graduated BA from Oxford in 1929, subsequently obtaining a MSc degree from the University of Manchester in 1931, and his Oxford degree was promoted to MA in 1933. He married Mary Joyce Ransford in 1931.

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Career

Occupation: ornithologist, paleontologist, arachnologist, university teacher, zoologist.⁸

1936 to 1967Full professor, University of Otago^{5 6}
Date not recordedWorked at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology⁵
Date not recordedFounded Ornithological Society of New Zealand⁷

From 1930 to 1936 Marples worked as assistant lecturer in zoology at Manchester. In 1937 he went to New Zealand to become professor of zoology at the University of Otago, a position he served in for 30 years before retiring in 1967 to Woodstock, near Oxford in southern England. He published numerous papers on a wide variety of zoological topics, especially in the fields of ornithology, arachnology and fossil penguins. He was also a cofounder of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand.

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Personal life

BornMar 31, 1907, Hessle⁹
DiedOct 1997, West Oxfordshire^{10 11}
CitizenshipNew Zealand¹²
SpouseMary Joyce Marples^{13 14}

Awards

1953Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi^{15 16}

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Early life and education

Career

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