Richard Southwood

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Sir Richard Southwood
Chancellor
The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead
Preceded byThe Lord Neill of Bladen
Succeeded bySir Peter North
Personal details
Born(1931-06-20)20 June 1931
Died26 October 2005(2005-10-26) (aged 74)
AwardsLinnean Medal (1988)
Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Scott Memorial Award
Insignia of a Knight Bachelor

Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood

DL FRS (20 June 1931 – 26 October 2005)[1] was a British biologist, professor of zoology and vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.[2][3] A specialist on entomology
, he developed the field of insect ecology and the development of study techniques. He wrote a landmark textbook on Ecological Methods that went into numerous editions. He also was well known for developing the field of entomology through mentorship of a circle of researchers at Silwood Park.

Biography

Southwood was born in Marlborough Cottage in

chair of the division of life sciences.[1]

Southwood's research at Imperial concentrated on insect communities and population dynamics. His 1966 book Ecological Methods described techniques available for the study of populations and ecosystems, including population estimates with different sampling techniques.[4]

In 1979, he took up the

Fellow of Merton College. In 1989, he moved from being head of the department of zoology to take up the vice-chancellorship of the university,[5] from which position he set up a working party that would recommend the reform of the university's governance. Having stepped down from that position in 1993, he continued to research, teach and write, and in 2003 published The Story of Life,[6]
a book based on the first-year undergraduate lectures he gave at Oxford.

Southwood served as chairman of the

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) set up by the British Government in 1988. In 1993–1994 he was the first head of the department of environmental sciences and policy at the Central European University
in Budapest.

Southwood was also a contributing member of the Oxford Round Table, an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of contemporary issues.

A portrait of Sir Richard Southwood hangs at Merton College, Oxford.[7]

Family

Sir Richard Southwood married, in 1955, Alison Langley (née Harden) who he met at Rothamsted; Sir Richard and Lady Southwood had two sons and six grandchildren.[1]

Honours

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.2008.0005
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  2. ^ Kelly, Jeremy. "Professor Sir Richard Southwood Obituary". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  3. ^ "Papers and correspondence of Sir Richard Southwood b.1931". Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  4. ISSN 0080-4606
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  5. ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  6. ISBN 0-19-860786-5
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  7. ^ Art UK
  8. ^ "Prof Sir Richard Southwood". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  9. ^ "CIDADÃOS ESTRANGEIROS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas". www.ordens.presidencia.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  10. ^ "The Peter Scott Memorial Award" (PDF). bna-naturalists.org. British Naturalists' Association. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Lord Neill of Bladen
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

1989–1993 		Succeeded by
Sir Peter North
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