George Hazelwood locket
George Hazelwood Locket (born August 12, 1900 in Brantingham near Kent in Surrey , † January 27, 1991 ) was a British arachnologist .
Locket studied chemistry and biology at the University of Oxford under Julian Huxley, among others . His main occupation was a teacher and in his spare time he dealt with spiders. His spider science teachers included William Falconer (1862–1943), John Edward Hull (1863–1960), and Arthur Randell Jackson (1877–1944).
He is best known for his standard work British Spiders with Alfred Frank Millidge . It emerged from a study group that also included William Syer Bristowe and Horace Alfred Theodore Savory . A number of first descriptions of spider species come from him and some taxa are also named after him.
In 1974 he received the Stamford Raffles Prize from the Zoological Society of London. In 1959 he was involved in the founding of the later British Arachnological Society (then Faltford Mill Field Center).
Fonts
- with AF Millidge: British Spiders, Ray Society, 3 volumes, 1951, 1953, 1973 (volume 3 also with Peter Merrett)
literature
- AF Millidge, obituary in Bulletin British Arachnological Society, 9, 1992, 1-3
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| SURNAME | Locket, George Hazelwood |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British arachnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brantingham near Kent , Surrey |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1991 |