Hindle, Edward (1886-1973: Regius Professor of Zoology, University of Glasgow, Scotland)

Edward Hindle was born in Sheffield, England, on 21 March 1886 , the eldest of six children to Edward James Hindle and Sarah Elizabeth Dewar. He attended classes at Bradford Technical College, Bradford, England, before gaining a national scholarship in biology at the Royal College of Science, London, in 1903. From there he went to work with Professor A Dendy, FRS, at King's College, London, taking his Associate in Zoology in 1906. From 1907 until 1908 he worked as a Research Assistant at the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, before travelling to California, United States, in 1908 to re-join his family who had moved there in 1906. He spent the first six months in California working at the Marine Biological Station, La Jolla, before enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley, where he gained his PhD in 1910 . He then returned to England, and from 1910 until 1914 was Kingsley Bye Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Beit Memorial Research Fellow, Quick Laboratory, Cambridge. He also spent the summer of 1911 at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. During his time at Cambridge he enrolled as an undergraduate in the Natural Science Tripos, graduating BA in 1912 and MA in 1917. From 1914 until 1919 he undertook War Service in England, France and Palestine, with the Royal Engineers Signals Service. In 1919, he married Irene Margaret Twist (d1933).

It was also in 1919 he became Professor of Biology and Parasitology at the School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. On returning to England in 1924, he became Milner Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. From 1925 until 1928 he served with the Royal Society's Kala-azar Commission in China, and from 1928 until 1933 he was Beit Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, London. In 1929 , he was awarded the degree of DSc by the University of Cambridge. He was married again in 1936 to Ellen Mary Theodora Boyen (nee Schroeder) but the marriage was dissolved in 1951. In 1935 , he was appointed Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow , Scotland, holding this post until 1944 , when he became Scientific Director at the Zoological Society of London, holding that post until 1951. He was active in editorial work from early in his career and was associated with Parasitology in various capacities, 1912-1968. He was disappointed after the Second World War by the failure of One World , a publication intended as an international review of the arts, sciences and letters, which he helped to launch but was abandoned for lack of financial support.

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