Background
Edward Hindle was born in Sheffield on 21 March 1886 and initially educated at home.
entomologist university professor
Edward Hindle was born in Sheffield on 21 March 1886 and initially educated at home.
From Bradford Technical College (now the University of Bradford) he obtained a scholarship in biology at the Royal College of Science in 1903. He was further educated at King"s College London, and after research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he gained a Doctor of Philosophy at Berkeley University of California in 1910. Returning to England, he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, eventually becoming Doctor of Science in 1926.
Appointed Professor of Biology at Cairo University School of Medicine, in 1924 he returned to research in England at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
From there in 1925 he joined and became leader of the expedition mounted by the Royal Society to China, returning in 1928 to research at the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research and then at the National Institute for Medical Research. Hindle was Regius Professor of Zoology and Curator of the Hunterian Museum at the University of from 1935 to 1943, being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942.
During his time at, he encouraged research in genetics and freshwater biology. In 1938 Hindle had joined the Officers" Training Corps of University, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel and its Commanding Officer.
He also commanded a battalion of the Home Guard.
In 1943 he was appointed the first Scientific Director of the Zoological Society of London, a new post mainly concerned in organizing all the more scientific branches of the Society’s work as well as scientific problems concerning the collections of animals at Regent’s Park Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo. Hindle retired from in 1951, when he also gave up his post as General Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Among many interests, he continued his work for the Royal Geographical Society, being Honorary Secretary from 1951 to 1961 and Honorary Vice-President in 1962.
There were no children.
Hindle died in a taxi in London on 22 January 1973.
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Already a member of the Territorials, in 1914 he became a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, seeing service in France and Palestine until demobilised in Egypt in 1919.