Tim Halliday
Tim Halliday | |
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| Born | 11 September 1945 Marlborough |
| Died | 10 April 2019(aged 73) |
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| Occupation | Herpetologist |
| Website | http:// hallidayfarndon.co.uk/ |
ProfessorTimothy Richard Hallidaywas a Britishherpetologistand artist.
He was born on 11 September 1945 inMarlborough, Wiltshire,to Edna (née Barlow) who was a housemistress atMarlborough College,her husband, Jack Halliday was a biology teacher there.[1]
He was educated at Marlborough College, then studied zoology at Oxford University, where hisdoctoral thesiswas on the sexual behaviour ofnewts.[1][2]
He joined theOpen Universityin 1977, as a lecturer in biology, and by his retirement in 2009 was a professor of biology.[1]
He played a key role in organising the 1989 'First World Congress of Herpetology' at theUniversity of Kent,and was instrumental in the creation of theDeclining Amphibian Populations Task Force,and served as its international director from 1994 to 2006.[1]He also helped to establish the TRITURUS network of newt researchers.[3]
Between 1990 and 1998 he seat on the council of theZoological Society of London(ZSL), as well as chairing its conservation committee.[1]He was also an advisor for David Attenborough's programmesLife on EarthandLife in Cold Blood.[1]
As an artist, Halliday specialised in painting birds, frogs and toads.[4]
He married Carolyn Wheeler (who had been the first female pupil at Marlborough College) in 1970.[1]They first met at nursery school. She also studied zoology at Oxford.[1]They lived in Oxford[5]and had three children and two grandchildren.[1]All survive him.[1]
He died on 10 April 2019, after being diagnosed with an rare and incurable form ofT-cell lymphomain 2016.[1][4]
The speciesPseudophilautus hallidayi,Halliday's shrub frog, is named in his honour.[1]
TheAmphibian Survival Allianceand IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group dedicated a special issue of their journalFrogLogto Halliday in November 2018.[6]An ZSL symposium on amphibian diseases held in late April 2019 was also dedicated to Halliday.[7]
Publications
[edit]- O'Shea M,Halliday T. 2002.Smithsonian Handbooks: Reptiles and Amphibians.London: DK Publishing. 256 pp.ISBN0-7894-9393-4.
- The Book of Frogs.Ivy Press. 2016.ISBN978-1782402787.
References
[edit]- ^abcdefghijklFerry, Georgina (13 May 2019)."Tim Halliday obituary".The Guardian.Retrieved11 June2019.
- ^Halliday, Timothy R. (1972).A study of the behaviour of newts, being an investigation of the sexual behaviour of some species of the European genus Triturus(Ph.D). University of Oxford.Retrieved11 June2019.
- ^Griffiths, Richard A. (November 2018)."Newt Scientist"(PDF).FrogLog.26(120): 7.
- ^ab"St Hugh's hosting Tim Halliday art exhibition".St Hugh's College, Oxford. 5 September 2018.Retrieved11 June2019.
- ^Allain, Steven J.R."In Memoriam- The man who loved frogs".Society for Conservation Biology.Retrieved11 June2019.
- ^"Tim Halliday: Amphibian Ambassador"(PDF).FrogLog.26(120). November 2018.
- ^"Zoological Society of London Symposium: Mitigating single pathogen and co-infections that threaten amphibian biodiversity".Amphibian Survival Alliance.Retrieved11 June2019.
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