From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clive Forster Cooper
Clive Forster Cooper
Sir Clive Forster Cooper FRS (3 April 1880 - 23 August
Cooper,
1947)[1] was an English paleontologist. He was the first to
Private life
describe Paraceratherium, the largest known land mam- In 1912, Forster Cooper married Rosalie, a daughter of
mal. R. Tunstall-Smith, of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and they
had two sons and one daughter.[2] He was knighted in
1946 and died on 23 August 1947.[2]
Early life
He was born in London, the son of John Forster Cooper
and Mary Emily Miley, and educated at Summer Fields
Notes
School, Oxford, Rugby School.[2] In 1897 he went up to [1] Clive Forster-Cooper.
Watson, D. M. S. (1950). "Clive Forster-Cooper
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained his BA in 1880-1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal
1901 and his MA in 1904.[3] Society 7 (19): 82. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0006.
[2] ^ ’Forster-Cooper, Sir Clive’, in Who Was Who
[3] Cooper [post Forster-Cooper], Clive Forster in
Career Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge
Forster Cooper was a member of expeditions in 1900 to University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
the Maldive and Laccadive Islands. From 1902 to 1903 he Persondata
was naturalist to the North Seas Fisheries Commission
Name Forster Cooper, Clive
Scientific Investigations, before joining expeditions to
the Seychelles, Fayum and Baluchistan. In 1914, he was Alternative names
appointed Director of Cambridge’s University Museum Short description
of Zoology, remaining there until 1937. During the First Date of birth 3 April 1880
World War, he was busy with government war research
Place of birth
on malaria. At Cambridge, he was also Reader in the Ver-
tebrata and a Fellow of Trinity Hall.[2] Date of death 23 August 1947
Forster-Cooper was Director of the Natural History Place of death
Museum in London from 1938 to 1947.[2]
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