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Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927

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Personal name headingShipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927
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Variant(s)Shipley, Arthur Everett, Sir, 1861-1927
Birth date18610310
Death date19270922
Place of birthWalton-on-Thames (England)
Field of activityZoology
AffiliationUniversity of Cambridge Christ's College (University of Cambridge) Royal Society (Great Britain)
Profession or occupationZoologists College teachers College presidents
Found inLCCN 30-19238: The Cambridge natural history, 1922-1927 (hdg.: Shipley, Arthur Everett, Sir, 1861-1927; usage: Sir A.E. Shipley)
LCCN 09-6522: His Pearls & parasites, 1908 (hdg.: Shipley, Sir Arthur Everett, 1861-1927; usage: Arthur E. Shipley)
The voyage of a vice-chancellor, 1919, first paperback edition, 2015: cover (A.E. Shipley) page 4 of cover (Arthur Everett Shipley, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge)
Wikipedia (English), January 29, 2016 (Sir Arthur Everett Shipley GBE FRS (10 March 1861-22 September 1927); English zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey; read natural sciences, specialising in zoology, at Christ's College, Cambridge; particularly specialised in the study of parasitic worms, publishing nearly fifty papers on them and leading to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904; stayed at Cambridge after graduation, being appointed university demonstrator in comparative anatomy in 1886, lecturer in the advanced morphology of the Invertebrata in 1894, and reader in zoology in 1908; elected a fellow of Christ's College in 1887 and became college tutor in natural sciences in 1892; in 1891 he was appointed secretary to Cambridge's Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate; in 1910 he was elected Master of Christ's College, a post he held until his death, and from 1917 to 1919 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; co-edited, with Sidney Frederic Harmer, the ten-volume Cambridge Natural History, between 1895 and 1909; other publications included Pearls and Parasites, 1908, The Voyage of a Vice-Chancellor, 1919)
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