William Benham (zoologist)

Benham in 1907

Sir William Blaxland Benham KBE FRS (29 March 1860 – 21 August 1950) was a New Zealand zoologist.[1]

He was born in Isleworth, Middlesex, England on 29 March 1860. He studied at Marlborough College and London University and taught before moving to New Zealand in 1898.[2] He was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition.[3] From 1905 to 1911 he was the Governor in Council of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute.[4]

He retired in 1936 and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1939 Birthday Honours.[2][5]

Selected publications

  • Harmer, S. F.; Shipley, A. E., eds. (1896). ""Archiannelida, Polychaeta, and Myzostomaria" by W. Blaxland Benham". The Cambridge Nature History, Vol. II. pp. 241–346. [6]
  • Benham, W. Blaxland (1901). Lankester, Ray, ed. Part IV. The Platyhelmia, Mesozoa and Nemertini. A Treatise on Zoology. Adam and Charles Black. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Benson, W. N. (1951). "William Blaxland Benham. 1860–1950". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7 (20): 293–301. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1951.0001. JSTOR 769019.
  2. 1 2 Miller, David (1950). "Sir William Blaxland Benham, K.B.E., F.R.S., (1860–1950)". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 80. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Morton, John. "William Blaxland Benham". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "Benham, William Blaxland". Who's Who: 165. 1916.
  5. ↑ "No. 34633". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1939. p. 3866.
  6. ↑ "Review of The Cambridge Nature History, Vol. II". The Cambridge Review. 18: 229–230. 11 February 1897.
  7. ↑ "Review of The Platyhelmia, Mesozoa and Nemertini by W. B. Benham". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 93 (2418): 269–270. 1 March 1902.


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