Английская Википедия:Cyril Beeson
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Cyril Frederick Cherrington Beeson CIE, D.Sc. (1889–1975) was an English entomologist and forest conservator who worked in India. Beeson was an expert on forest entomology who wrote numerous papers on insects, and whose book on Indian forest insects remains a standard work on the subject. After his retirement and return to England he became an antiquarian horologist.
Family
Beeson was born in Oxford on 10 February 1889 to Walter Thomas Beeson and Rose Eliza Beeson, née Clacey.Шаблон:Sfn Walter Beeson was Surveyor to St John's College, Oxford.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1922, Beeson married Marion Cossentine, daughter of Samuel Fitze. They had a daughter, Barbara Rose, who was born about 1925.Шаблон:Sfn Marion died in 1946 after a long period of ill-health.Шаблон:Sfn In 1971, aged 82, Beeson married his second wife, Mrs Margaret Athalie Baldwin Carbury, formerly of Kenya, daughter of Cecil William Allen.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Beeson died on 3 November 1975.Шаблон:Sfn
Education
Beeson attended City of Oxford High School for Boys, where his best friend was T. E. Lawrence (known to Beeson as "Ned", better remembered today as Lawrence of Arabia).Шаблон:Sfn Lawrence called him by his nickname of "Scroggs".[1]
At the age of 15 Beeson and Lawrence bicycled around Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, visited almost every village's parish church, studied their monuments and antiquities and made rubbings of their monumental brasses.Шаблон:Sfn The two schoolboys monitored building sites in Oxford and presented their finds to the Ashmolean Museum.Шаблон:Sfn The Ashmolean's Annual Report for 1906 said that the pair "by incessant watchfulness secured everything of antiquarian value which has been found".Шаблон:Sfn In the summers of 1906 and 1907 Beeson and Lawrence toured France by bicycle, collecting photographs, drawings and measurements of medieval castles.Шаблон:Sfn Beeson made many of the drawings that Lawrence used in his thesis The influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture – to the end of the 12th century, which was published in 1936 as Crusader Castles.Шаблон:Sfn
Beeson entered the University of Oxford in 1907 to read geology.Шаблон:Sfn He was a non-collegiate student until 1908, when he won an exhibition that enabled him to enter St John's College.Шаблон:Sfn He graduated in 1910 but then changed disciplines to forestry, in which he obtained a diploma.Шаблон:Sfn He received his MA in 1917 and an Oxford D.Sc. in 1923.Шаблон:Sfn
Army service
Beeson was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War.Шаблон:Sfn
Forest entomologist
From 1911 until 1941 Beeson worked for the Imperial Forest Service (IFS) as a research officer, forest conservator and forest entomologist.Шаблон:Sfn The IFS seconded him to study tropical and forest entomology in London and Germany, after which he first served in the Punjab.Шаблон:Sfn In 1913 he was appointed Forest Zoologist of India.Шаблон:Sfn Beeson was closely involved with the development of the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun.Шаблон:Sfn In 1922 his post was renamed Forest Entomologist.Шаблон:Sfn He served in the same position until his retirement in 1941, when he was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire.Шаблон:Sfn
Beeson's first book, The Ecology and Control of the Forest Insects of India and the Neighbouring Countries was published in 1941.Шаблон:Sfn It remained the standard work in its field,Шаблон:Sfn being republished in 1961 and 1993.
Beeson returned to Oxford, where he became Director of the Imperial Forestry Bureau from 1945 to 1947.Шаблон:Sfn While he was Director of the IFB, Beeson and his wife moved to Adderbury in North Oxfordshire.Шаблон:Sfn
The scale insect genus Beesonia was named after Beeson who collected specimens described by Edward Ernest Green in 1926. It is placed in a family Beesoniidae.Шаблон:Sfn
Antiquarian horologist
When the couple moved to Adderbury, Beeson began to collect antique clocks, many of which originated from Oxfordshire.Шаблон:Sfn Beeson turned his scholarly and scientific approach to antiquarian horology, and in 1953 became a founder member of the Antiquarian Horological Society.Шаблон:Sfn He contributed many articles to the AHS's quarterly academic journal Antiquarian Horology, and edited it for the year 1959–60.Шаблон:Sfn
Beeson became a published authority on the prominent clockmakers Joseph Knibb (1640–1711)Шаблон:Sfn and John Knibb (1650–1722).Шаблон:Sfn Beeson's own collection included five clocks and three watches by John Knibb.Шаблон:Sfn He also developed a special interest in turret clocks and made an influential study of the clock installed in 1669 at Wadham College, Oxford, which he proposed was made by Joseph Knibb.Шаблон:Sfn
Beeson joined the Banbury Historical Society soon after its foundation in 1958.Шаблон:Sfn He was Chairman of the BHS 1959–60 and founding editor of its journal Cake and Cockhorse 1959–62.Шаблон:Sfn In 1962 the AHS and BHS jointly published the first edition of Beeson's monograph, Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1924 the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford started a small collection of historic clocks and watches.Шаблон:Sfn In 1966 Beeson greatly expanded this by presenting the Museum with his own historic collection,Шаблон:Sfn which included 42 longcase clocks, 24 other clocks and 13 watches.Шаблон:Sfn In 1967 the Museum published a second, enlargedШаблон:Sfn edition of his book Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400–1850.Шаблон:Sfn In 1971 the Museum published a broader study by Beeson, English Church Clocks 1280–1850: History and Classification.Шаблон:Sfn This led the AHS in 1973 to form its turret clock section, of which Beeson became chairman.Шаблон:Sfn In 1972 Lord Bullock, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford opened the Museum of the History of Science's Beeson Room to house its horological collection.Шаблон:Sfn
For his final book Beeson returned to one of the castles in France that had interested him and T.E. Lawrence as teenagers. Perpignan 1356: The Making of a Tower Clock and Bell for the King's Castle is a substantial account of the tower clock and bell made in 1356 for the Palace of the Kings of Majorca at Perpignan.Шаблон:Sfn
Published works
Over a period of more than 30 years Beeson published more than 60 scientific articles on tropical forest insects.Шаблон:Sfn He also edited the Indian forestry journal.Шаблон:Sfn Listed below are only the books that Beeson wrote, including journal articles that were republished as books.
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