Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald

Irish biologist

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1910

Date of Death: 03-May-1974

Profession: naturalist, ornithologist, entomologist

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald

  • Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald MBE (born 7 June 1910 in Dunleer, Ireland; died 3 May 1974 in Nairobi, Kenya), was an Irish-born entomologist, ornithologist, conservationist, and plant collector. In 1930 Vesey-Fitzgerald graduated to Bachelor of Science at the Wye Agricultural College of the London University.
  • In 1932 he became Associate of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad (AICTA).
  • From 1933 to 1936 he conducted research work on biological control of insect pests on sugar cane in Brazil, British Guiana and the British West Indies.
  • From 1936 to 1939 he did research on biological control of insect pests on coconut palms in the Seychelles, Madagascar and the coastal East Africa.
  • In 1938 he married Rosalinda Octavia Hindson.
  • From 1939 to 1941 he was entomologist at the Rubber Research Institute in Malaya. From 1941 to 1942 he served with the Federal Malay States Volunteers.
  • From 1942 to 1947 he worked as entomologist at the Middle East Anti Locust Unit in Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
  • From 1947 to 1949 he was senior assistant game warden in Kenya.
  • From 1949 to 1964 he worked as Senior Scientific Officer at the Anti-Locust Research Centre in Abercorn, Northern Rhodesia.
  • . In 1964 he became an ecologist and conservationist in the National parks of Tanzania where he experimented with an electric fence in the Arusha National Park.
  • He further went on ornithological, entomological, and botanical surveys to Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, the Mascarenes, the Seychelles, and Trinidad and Tobago.
  • His plant collections are on display in the Natural History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Botanische Staatssammlung Munich, the NU Herbarium, University of KwaZulu-Natal, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, and in the National Herbarium and Botanic Garden of Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe. Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ) from the Seychelles is named in his honour.

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