Background
He was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 19 June 1899.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
David Burt
Edit ProfileEducation
He attended Kirkcaldy High School.
Career
Street Andrews University’s Burt Memorial Lecture is named after him. In the First World War he joined the Black Watch and reached the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was not discharged until 1922.
In 1924 he moved to Ceylon to lecture in Zoology at University College, Ceylon.
He was promoted to Professor of Zoology in 1939. In 1946 he returned to Scotland to lecture at Street Andrews University.
His students included the marine biologist Norman Tebble FRSE. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being, amongst others, Doctorate’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Street Andrews University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Science) in 1976.
He died at home in Street Andrews on 8 May 1983.
