W. S. Bristowe

William Syer Bristowe (1 September 1901 – 11 September 1979), who wrote under the name W. S. Bristowe, was an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders. He was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge University and in 1921 went on a Cambridge University expedition to Jan Mayen led by James Mann Wordie. Two years later he went on another Cambridge University expedition, this time to Brazil.

Bristowe was employed by Brunner Mond which subsequently became Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). In 1936, he was appointed head of the ICI Far East Department, later managing ICI Central Staff Department from 1948 to 1962.