W.A. Lamborn
W.A. Lamborn | |
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Born | 1877 |
Died | 4 March 1959 (aged 81–82) |
Occupation | Medical entomologist, physician |
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William Alfred Stedwell Lamborn (in literature usually as W.A. Lamborn) OBE (1877 – 4 March 1959) was a British physician and medical entomologist who worked in Southeast Asia and Africa, conducting studies on malaria and trypanosoma while also collecting and studying insects. A number of insect species including Alaena lamborni,[1] Aslauga lamborni,[2] , ;[3] and the ciliate genus [4] are named after him.
Lamborn was born in 1877 at Battle, Sussex and was educated at St Mungo's College, Glasgow, and trained at Middlesex Hospital receiving a medical degree in 1899. He worked at Islington Infirmary and the County Asylum, Oxford as a medical officer before going to British Guiana in 1905. In 1907 he moved to Pietermaritzburg in South Africa and later served in the Nigeria Bitumen Corporation at Lagos as a medical officer. He conducted a malaria survey in the Federated Malay States. In 1913 he was appointed as a medical entomologist in Nigeria but travelled around Africa working for the . He was involved in studies of tsetse flies around 1917 and worked at Tanga Hospital. In 1918 he became a medical officer in Nyasaland and worked briefly in the Federated Malay States as a medical entomologist in 1920 before returning to Nyasaland. During World War II he served as a Major in Kenya in the R.A.M.C.[5]
Lamborn was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1930 New Year Honours and elected member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1937.[5] He died at his home in Fort Johnston, Malawi.[6] His insect collections are deposited in the Hope Collection at Oxford University.[7]
References[]
- ^ Gifford, D. (1965). "Butterflies of Malawi". Blantyre, Malawi: The Society of Malawi. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ Bethune-Baker, G.T. (1914). "Notes on the Lycaenidae collected by W. A. Lamborn in the Lagos district of West Africa with descriptions of new species". Appendix. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.: 499–503.
- ^ Bohart, R. M. (1987). "New Praestochrysis and Notes on Described Species From the Oriental Region (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 94 (1–2): 45–49. doi:10.1155/1987/93491. ISSN 0033-2615.
- ^ Keilin, D. (1921). "On a New Ciliate: Lambornella stegomyiae n.g., n.sp., Parasitic in the Body-Cavity of the Larvae of Stegomyia scutellaris Walker (Diptera, Nematocera, Culicidae)". Parasitology. 13 (3): 216–224. doi:10.1017/S0031182000012488. ISSN 0031-1820.
- ^ a b "Obituary". British Medical Journal. 2 (5147): 310–311. 1959. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5147.307-c. S2CID 220222429.
- ^ Kemp, John (2014). "Dr. W. A. Lamborn: (1877 - 1959) A Medical Entomologist in Nyasaland". The Society of Malawi Journal. 67 (1): 57–63. ISSN 0037-993X. JSTOR 24332666.
- ^ Uvarov, Boris (1961). "The President's remarksREMARKS". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series C. Journal of Meetings. 25 (11): 49–51. doi:10.1111/j.1946-150X.1961.tb01515.x.
- Malariologists
- Entomologists
- 1877 births
- 1959 deaths
- People from Battle, East Sussex
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Royal Army Medical Corps officers
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Alumni of the University of Glasgow Medical School
- 20th-century British medical doctors
- 19th-century British medical doctors