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About Wilfred Backhouse Alexander
Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (4 February 1885 – 8 December 1965) was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was introduced to natural history by his two uncles, James and Albert Crosfield. He was educated at Bootham School in York and Tonbridge School in Kent. and went on to study Natural Science at Cambridge University. During this time his main interest was botany, graduating in 1909 with first class honours.
He stayed in Cambridge after graduating for a short time working as assistant superintendent of the Cambridge Museum of Zoology and assistant demonstrator in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy for Cambridge University. In 1911 he worked for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as an assistant naturalist on an international exploration of the North Sea. In August 1911 he was appointed Assistant at the Western Australian Museum. He moved to Australia in early 1912 to take up the position which he held for three years before being made Keeper of Biology at the museum.
He was awarded the Tucker Medal of the British Trust for Ornithology in 1955 and the Union Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1959.
He spent his retirement in Dorset, where he died on 18 December 1965.
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Wilfred Backhouse Alexander's Timeline
| 1885 |
February 4, 1885
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Croydon, Surrey, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1965 |
December 5, 1965
Age 80
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Dorset, England (United Kingdom)
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