Roland Trimen ( 1840 - 1916 )

Birth: 3 Park Place Villas, Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom (29 October 1840) Death: Nursing home, Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom (25 July 1916) Profession: Naturalist; colonial administrator Research field: Natural history; entomology; lepidoptera Education: Rottingdean; King's College School, Wimbledon, London Career: Voyaged to Cape of Good Hope [now part of Republic of South Africa] for his health, and settled there (1860); joined the Cape Public Service as a clerk (1860); private secretary to Richard Southey; secretary to Sir Henry Barkly British High Commissioner of South Africa; Director, South Africian Museum, Cape Town (1876-1895); Vine Diseases Commission (1880); chairman of the Phyloxerra Commission (1886); among the first entomologists to investigate mimicry and polymorphism in butterflies; collaborated with Charles Darwin to study the pollination of orchids; retired (1895) Memberships: Entomological Society of London (1859, president 1897-1898); British Association for the Advancement of Science (1871); FLS (1871); South African Philosophical Society (first secretary 1877-1878, President 1883-1884); South African Ornithologists' Union (1904); Royal Society of South Africa (1908); FZS Medals/Awards: Honorary MA conferred by the University of Oxford (1899) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 7/06/1883 Medals/Prizes: Darwin Medal 1910.