Norman Tebble

Dr Norman Tebble FRSE FIB (1924–1998) was a 20th-century British marine biologist.

Life

He was born in East Sleekburn in Northumberland on 17 August 1924, the son of Robert soulsby Tebble and his wife, Jane Ann Graham. He was educated at Bedlington Grammar School.

He entered St Andrews University under the University Short Course Scheme, which offered a university place linked to military service. In late 1943 he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and served as a pilot in Burma and India.

In 1946 he returned to St Andrews University to study palaeontology with a focus upon foraminifera. From 1946 he came under the tutelage of Prof David Raitt Robertson Burt. Burt became a lifelong friend and pushed Tebble towards museum work. Burt obtained a summer position for Tebble at the Shell Oil Company in The Hague in the Netherlands. He became an expert in the taxonomy of foraminifera. He gained his BSc in 1950.

He retired in 1984 and died in North Berwick on 23 July 1998.

Family

In 1954 he married fellow zoologist Mary Olivia Archer, who he had met through his work in the Natural History Museum.

Publications

The Polychaete Fauna of the Gold Coast (1955) British Bivalve Seashells (1966) Polychaetes from Scottish Waters (1985)