Richard Maitland Maitland LAWS

Background

Laws, Richard Maitland was born on April 23, 1926 in Whitley Bay, United Kingdom. Son of Percy Malcolm and Florence May (Heslop) Laws.

Education

Bachelor, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Science, Cambridge University, Doctor of Science (honorary) Bath U. Principal science officer National Institute Oceanography, Godalming, 1954-1961. Director Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology, Uganda, 1961-1967. Director Tsavo Research Project, Kenya, 1967-1968.

Head life science division British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, Cambridge, 1969-1973, director, 1973-1987, director Sea Mammal Research Unit, 1977-1987.

Master Street.Edmund"s College, Cambridge, 1985-1996.

Career

Laws started his career as a zoologist on the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947, where he investigated the ecology of elephant seals in the South Orkney Islands and South Georgia. Outside Antarctica, he was also an expert on the large African mammals. In 1960, he was appointed Director of the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology in Uganda.

Over the next eight years, his research focused on hippopotamus and elephant ecology.

Doctor Laws spent a year as Director of the Tsavo Research Project in Kenya (1967-1968). Needing data from 300 dead elephants, Doctor Laws" research at Tsavo involved the slaughter of 300 wild elephants.

Laws returned to Cambridge in 1968 to resume his Antarctic research. In 1969, he became Head of the Life Sciences Division of the British Antarctic Survey.

He succeeded Vivian Fuchs as Business activity statement Director in 1973, a post he held until retirement in May 1987.

He was Master of Street Edmund"s College, Cambridge from 1985 until 1996. Laws prize.

Achievements

• Richard Maitland Laws has been listed as a notable biology educator, scientist, director by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Society, Norwegian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), Institute Biology (vice president 1973, president 1990-1994), Science Committee Antarctic Research, Zoological Society London (honorary, secretary 1984-1988). Member Society Marine Mammalogy (honorary member), Uganda National Parks (honorary, warden), British Ecological Society, Mammal Society, American Society Mammalogy.

Interests

• Walking, photography, painting.

Connections

Married Maureen Isobel Holmes, June 7, 1954. Children: Richard Anthony, Christopher Peter, Andrew David.

Father:

Percy Malcolm Laws

Mother:

Florence May (Heslop) Laws

Spouse:

Maureen Isobel Holmes

child:

Christopher Peter Laws

child:

Richard Anthony Laws

child:

Andrew David Laws