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Authorised form of nameShipley; Sir; Arthur Everett (1861 - 1927); zoologist
Dates1861 - 1927
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWalton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Date of birth10 March 1861
Place of deathMaster's Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge, England
Date of death22/09/1927
Occupationzoologist
Research fieldParasitology
Comparative anatomy
Embryology
Zoology
Animal morphology
ActivityEducation: University College School, London (1877–9);
MA
Career:
Began his scientific career with investigations on the structure and development of the Brachiopoda, development of the river lamprey, Gephyrean worms, parasitic worms: his published work on this subject, which eventually extended to nearly fifty papers in scientific journals, gradually building his scientific reputation as a competent and successful researcher; held successive positions at Cambridge, of university demonstrator in comparative anatomy (1886); lecturer in the advanced morphology of the Invertebrata (1894); and reader in zoology (1908-1920); elected a fellow of Christ's College (1887) and became college tutor in natural sciences (1892); appointed secretary to Cambridge's Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate, which saw him in charge of all university laboratories and museums (1891); collaborated with Professor Ernest MacBride (FRS 1905) in writing a Textbook of Zoology (1901): collaborated with Sidney Frederic Harmer (FRS 1898) in editing the Cambridge Natural History, ten volumes which appeared between 1895 and 1909; edited the biological series of the Pitt Press Natural Science Manuals and the Fauna of British India series; co-editor with Professor George Henry Falkiner Nuttall (FRS 1904) of the journal Parasitology (1908-1914); assisted in editing the Journal of Economic Biology (1905-1913); elected master of Christ's College (1910),a a post he held until his death; was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1917-1919); visited Trinidad in order to lay the foundation stone of the new buildings of the College of Tropical Agriculture (1924).
Honours:
GBE 1920
Memberships:
Chairman of the Marine Biological Association
Research Defence Society Treasurer; VP
Central Medical War Committee
Imperial Bureau of Entomology
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1904
Age at election43
ProposerA Newton; John Murray; J Bryce; A M Norman; S F Harmer; W A Herdman; S J Hickson; L C Miall; G S Brady; A Sedgwick; H Gadow; J Y Buchanan; Walter L Buller
RelationshipsParents: Alexander Shipley, of The Hall, Datchet, Buckinghamshire, and Amelia, daughter of William Henry Burge, of Windsor.
PublishedWorksRCN R63440
OtherInfoSpecialised in the study of parasitic worms.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1928 vol 103 pp i-viii, plate, by Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer
CodeNA6154
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/004155Shipley, Sir Arthur Everettnd
NLB/3/706Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, [Royal Society]23 September 1889
RR/17/181Referee's report by Arthur Everett Shipley, on a paper 'On the inheritance of eye-colour in man' by C C Hurst28 May 1907
RR/16/287Referee's report by Arthur Everett Shipley, on a paper 'The growth of the oocyte in antedon: A morphological study in the cell-metabolism' by Gilbert C ChubbApril 1906
RR/16/328Referee's report by Arthur Everett Shipley, on a paper 'The colour physiology of the higher crustaceae. Part III' by Frederick William Keeble and Frederick William Gamble21 February 1905
NLB/18/126Copy letter from Michael Foster, to A Shipley, Xto College, Cambridge19 January 1899
NLB/52/343Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, FRS12 November 1915
NLB/52/449Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, FRS13 December 1915
NLB/17/760Copy letter from Michael Foster and Arthur William Rucker, to Monsieur le Secretaire du Conseil, Académie Impériale Militaire de Médecine, St Petersburg19 December 1898
NLB/34/457Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1907
NLB/28/525Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Albert Charles Seward, Fellow of the Royal Society 24 March 1904
NLB/32/738Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Karl Pearson, 7 Well Road, Hampstead, N.W.18 May 1906
NLB/32/739Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society, Christ's College, Cambridge18 May 1906
NLB/36/218Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, [Fellow of the Royal Society]19 September 1907
NLB/34/454Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society25 January 1907
NLB/38/105Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1908
NLB/37/733Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1908
NLB/41/431Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1909
NLB/37/491Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 March 1908
NLB/48/539Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Arthur Everett] Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1913
NLB/39/292Copy letter from John Rose Bradford to The Under Secretary of State for IndiaUndated
NLB/41/183Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1909
NLB/40/624Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley FRS 9 July 1909
NLB/42/588Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley[July 1910]
NLB/40/1Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr H F Morley19 March 1909
NLB/40/691Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley19 July 1909
NLB/41/346Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to Dr Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society25 November 1909
NLB/42/35Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley FRS 11 March 1910
NLB/41/785Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society23 February 1910
NLB/41/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1909
NLB/42/582Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley FRS 11 July 1910
NLB/41/682Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society3 February 1910
NLB/42/761Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley FRS4 October 1910
NLB/43/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society15 November 1910
NLB/48/523Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Arthur Everett] Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1913
NLB/47/156Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Arther] E [Everett] Shipley FRS9 December 1912
NLB/51/157Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Arthur Everett Shipley FRS22 December 1914
NLB/51/167Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Arther Everett Shipley FRS23 December 1914
NLB/52/302Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, FRS6 November 1915
NLB/54/76Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur Everett] Shipley, FRS2 February 1917
NLB/54/78Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Muir Mackenzie; The House of Lords, S.W.2 February 1917
RR/10/297Referee's report by William Carmichael M'Intosh, on a paper 'On Phymosoma varians' by Arthur Everett Shipley18 June 1889
NLB/67/914Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, FRS7 April 1925
NLB/3/913Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Christ's College, Cambridge8 November 1889
NLB/59/73Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Arthur Everett] Shipley, FRS14 July 1920
NLB/59/41Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Arthur Everett] Shipley, Chairman of Council of the Marine Biological Association and FRS; Christ's College Cambridge 12 July 1920
NLB/68/852Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, GBE, FRS13 November 1925
NLB/68/240Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [Everett] Shipley, GBE, FRS4 June 1925
NLB/63/337Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Arthur Everett] Shipley, FRS21 September 1922
NLB/63/485Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Arthur Everett] Shipley, FRS27 October 1922
NLB/66/889Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, FRS7 August 1924
NLB/69/71Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, G.B.E, FRS4 January 1926
NLB/68/957Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, FRS9 December 1925
NLB/66/854Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Arthur Everett] Shipley, FRS29 July 1924
NLB/69/158Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Shipley, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/69/900Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof [Arthur Edwin] Boycott, FRS11 November 1926
RR/10/298Referee's report by Arthur Milnes Marshall, on a paper 'On Phymosoma varians' by Arthur Everett Shipley21 September 1889
NLB/3/676Copy letter from Alfred H White, to Professor Arthur Milnes Marshall, Owens College, and Fellow of the Royal Society3 September 1889
NLB/40/729Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley FRS 27 July 1909
EC/1904/13Shipley, Sir Arthur Everett: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/59New Letter Book volume 59, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1920-2 December 1920
NLB/55/577Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William Foster Esq., C.I.E., Registar & Superintendent of Records, India Office17 June 1918
CD/103/15Letter from Arthur Everett Shipley, Christ's College Lodge, Cambridge, to William Bate Hardy21 December 1917
AP/78/7Unpublished paper, 'The reproduction and early development of Laminaria digitata and Laminaria saccharina' by G Harold Drew1909
PP/7/10Paper, 'On the formation of the mesoblast, and the persistence of the blastopore in the lamprey' by Arthur E [Everett] Shipley1885
RR/10/241Referee's report by Edwin Ray Lankester, on two papers 'On Phymosoma varians' by Arthur Everett Shipley, and 'On some variations of Cardium edule apparently correlated to the conditions of life' by William Bateson23 May 1889
NLB/37/646Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to A [Arthur] E [Everett] Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1908
NLB/38/654Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Everett Shipley, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1908
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