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Brian John Marples FRSNZ (31 March 1907 – 1997) was a British zoologist who spent most of his career in New Zealand. Early yearsMarples was born in Hessle, Yorkshire, in north-eastern England. He was educated at Kingsmead in Cheshire, and St Bees in Cumberland before attending Exeter College at Oxford University. He graduated as a BA from Oxford in 1929, subsequently obtaining a MSc from the University of Manchester in 1931, and MA from Oxford in 1933. He married Mary (Molly) Joyce Ransford in 1931.[1] CareerFrom 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.[1] He was also a cofounder of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand.[2] Honours
References1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/publications/reports/yearbooks/year2000/obituaries/brian-marples/ |title=Brian John Marples BA MA MSc FRSNZ FAZ |accessdate=2014-05-28 |work=2000 Academy Yearbook |first=Ewan |last=Fordyce |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |year=2012 }} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Marples, Brian John}}{{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub}}{{NewZealand-biologist-stub}}{{Zoologist-stub}}2. ^{{cite journal |author=Westerskov, Kaj E. |year=1999 |title=Obituary: Professor Brian John Marples |journal=Notornis |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=503–506 |url=http://notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_46_4_503.pdf }} 12 : 1907 births|1997 deaths|British zoologists|New Zealand ornithologists|New Zealand paleontologists|Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford|Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|University of Otago faculty|British arachnologists|People from Hessle|People from Dunedin|20th-century zoologists |
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