Tim Halliday

Professor Timothy Richard Halliday was a British herpetologist and artist.

He was born on 11 September 1945 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, to Edna (née Barlow) who was a housemistress at Marlborough College, her husband, Jack Halliday was a biology teacher there.

He was educated at Marlborough College, then studied zoology at Oxford University, where his doctoral thesis was on the sexual behaviour of newts.

He joined the Open University in 1977, as a lecturer in biology, and by his retirement in 2009 was a professor of biology.

Between 1990 and 1998 he seat on the council of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), as well as chairing its conservation committee.

He married Carolyn Wheeler (who had been the first female pupil at Marlborough College) in 1970. and had three children and two grandchildren. An ZSL symposium on amphibian diseases held in late April 2019 was also dedicated to Halliday.

Publications

Halliday T. 1980. Sexual Strategy. -(Survival in the Wild). Oxford and Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 158 pp. . O'Shea M, Halliday T. 2002. Smithsonian Handbooks: Reptiles and Amphibians. London: DK Publishing. 256 pp. .