Frederick Nutter Chasen

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Frederick Nutter Chasen ( 1896 - February 13, 1942 ) was a British zoologist and ornithologist.

Life

Chasen was appointed assistant curator at the Raffles Museum in Singapore in 1921 and succeeded Cecil Boden Kloss as its director in 1932 . Chasen was an expert on the birds and mammals of Southeast Asia. He completed the third and fourth volumes of Herbert Christopher Robinson's work on the birds of the Malay Peninsula.

While trying to flee Singapore when the British colony was captured by Japanese troops, Chasen died as a passenger on the converted coal steamer HMS Giang Bee, which sank on February 13, 1942 after enemy fire. He left two daughters, Elisabeth and Heather Chasen . The latter became known as an actress.

Single receipts

  1. ^ E. Banks: Obituary: Cecil Boden-Kloss. (pdf; 955 kB) In: The Bulletin of the Raffles Museum. 23 December 1950, pp. 336-346 , archived from the original on September 24, 2016 ; accessed on May 24, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Nicholas Michael: Frederick Nutter “Mickey” Chasen. In: michaelfamily.ch. May 30, 2011, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 17, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Chasen, Frederick Nutter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1942
Place of death Singapore