Hilda Mabel Canter

Hilda Mabel Canter-Lund (1922 – 15 January 2007) was an English mycologist, protozoologist, and photographer. She worked as a mycologist and then as a senior principal scientific officer at the laboratories of the Freshwater Biological Association. Canter took photographs and several of them were exhibited in multiple publications and published more than 74 papers of which 25 were in collaboration with colleagues. She received a fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society, the Benefactor's Medal from the British Mycological Society (BMS) and was elected an centennial fellow of the BMS. A photographic award in Canter's honour was established by the British Phycological Society.

Biography Canter was born in 1922 in Highbury, London. She was the daughter of a gas fitter assigned to the Royal Engineers during the First World War, and she was an only child. Canter went to Drayton Park Primary School in London from 1927 to 1933 and then attended Camden School for Girls between 1933 and 1940 before she was evacuated to Grantham when the Second World War was ongoing. The FBA Archives hold a collection of Canter's personal and scientific correspondence and work-related papers and photographs from the 1930s to the 1980s.