Edward Hindle

Edward Hindle FRS FRSE FIB FRGS FRPSG (21 March 1886–22 January 1973) was a British biologist and entomologist who was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow from 1935 to 1943. He specialised in the study of parasites.

Early years Edward Hindle was born in Sheffield on 21 March 1886 the son of Sarah Elizabeth Dewar and Edward James Hindle.

He was educated at home. From Bradford Technical College, now the University of Bradford, he obtained a scholarship in biology at the Royal College of Science in 1903. He was further educated at King's College London, and after research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he gained a Ph.D at Berkeley University of California in 1910. Returning to England, he entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, becoming DSc in 1926.

First World War and following years Already a member of the Territorial Army, in 1914 he became a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. He served in France and Palestine until he was demobilised in Egypt in 1919.

In 1922, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, John Stephenson, Francis Marshall and George Leslie Purser. He served as the Society's Vice President from 1943 to 1946.

Retirement and achievements Hindle retired from Regent's Park Zoo in 1951, when he also gave up his post as General Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Among many interests, he continued his work for the Royal Geographical Society, being Honorary Secretary from 1951 to 1961 and Honorary Vice-President in 1962.

The major achievements of his career were his work on leishmaniasis, on yellow fever and on spirochaetosis, all three arthropod-borne. A minor achievement was that every golden hamster in Europe and elsewhere descends from two pairs found in Syria that Saul Adler gave him in 1931.

Personal life In 1919, he married Irene Margaret Twist (d.1933), first cousin of Sir John Graham Kerr. In 1936, he married the former Ellen Mary Theodora Schroeder. They separated in 1951. There were no children by either marriage.

Hindle died in a taxi in London on 22 January 1973.