| Authorised form of name | Trimen; Roland (1840 - 1916) |
| Dates | 1840 - 1916 |
| Nationality | British |
| South African |
| Place of birth | 3 Park Place Villas, Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 29 October 1840 |
| Place of death | Nursing home, Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 25/07/1916 |
| Occupation | Naturalist; colonial administrator |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Entomology |
| Lepidoptera |
| Activity | Education:
Rottingdean; King's College School, Wimbledon, London
Career:
Voyaged to Cape of Good Hope [now part of Republic of South Africa] for his health, and settled there (1860); joined the Cape Public Service as a clerk (1860); private secretary to Richard Southey; secretary to Sir Henry Barkly British High Commissioner of South Africa; Director, South Africian Museum, Cape Town (1876-1895); Vine Diseases Commission (1880); chairman of the Phyloxerra Commission (1886); among the first entomologists to investigate mimicry and polymorphism in butterflies; collaborated with Charles Darwin to study the pollination of orchids; retired (1895)
Memberships:
Entomological Society of London (1859, president 1897-1898); British Association for the Advancement of Science (1871); FLS (1871); South African Philosophical Society (first secretary 1877-1878, President 1883-1884); South African Ornithologists' Union (1904); Royal Society of South Africa (1908); FZS
Medals/Awards:
Honorary MA conferred by the University of Oxford (1899) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1883 |
| Age at election | 42 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1910 |
| Relationships | Son of Richard and Marianne Esther Trimen; elder brother of Henry Trimen (FRS 1888); married (1883) Henrietta Blanche Bull, daughter of H E Boys-Bull of Calcutta; brother of Mary Elizabeth Barber, butterfly collector |
| Published works | Trimen and Bowker, 'South African Butterflies: a monograph of the extra-tropical species' 1887-1889 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1919-1920 vol 91 pp xviii-xxvii, plate, signed by E B P
References:
A Cohen, 'Roland Trimen and the merope harem' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 205-218 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/315946667 |
| Royal Society code | NA6633 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1883/14 | Trimen, Roland: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/004652 | Trimen, Roland | nd |
| NLB/15/471 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 11 October 1897 |
| NLB/6/578 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 June 1892 |
| NLB/6/490 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society, Norfolk Hotel, Harrington Road, South Kensington | 23 May 1892 |
| NLB/12/146 | Copy letter from [Theodore E James?] to an unknown recipient | 17 December 1895 |
| NLB/13/566 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 October 1896 |
| NLB/10/632 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain Trimen, Junior Army & Navy Club | 9 January 1895 |
| NLB/11/875 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Harrison & Sons | 24 October 1895 |
| NLB/12/143 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | [16 December 1895] |
| NLB/17/490 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 9 November 1898 |
| NLB/21/633 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 December 1900 |
| NLB/15/869 | Copy letter Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 4 January 1898 |
| NLB/13/122 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Agent General for Cape Colony | 19 June 1896 |
| NLB/17/232 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 15 September 1898 |
| NLB/14/516 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society, 5 Lancaster Street, Lancaster Gate, W. | 23 March 1897 |
| NLB/14/587 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 April 1897 |
| NLB/17/267 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society, care of A Drew, Water Hall, St Aldates, Oxford | 27 September 1898 |
| NLB/17/709 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, Dr Roland Trimen, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 10 December 1898 |
| NLB/17/684 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 December 1898 |
| NLB/17/120 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W. | 20 July 1898 |
| NLB/17/355 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | [18] October 1898 |
| NLB/18/32 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 January 1899 |
| NLB/19/682 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 November 1899 |
| NLB/21/564 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 December 1900 |
| NLB/18/793 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 13 May 1899 |
| NLB/35/54 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messsrs Harrison & Sons | 10 April 1907 |
| NLB/43/306 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 December 1910 |
| NLB/42/166 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 18 April 1910 |
| NLB/42/581 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Roland Trimen FRS | 11 July 1910 |
| NLB/46/301 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 9 July 1912 |
| NLB/53/544 | Copy letter from [Sir Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society and FRS; to [Mrs. Trimen] | 25 October 1916 |
| NLB/52/279 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 30 October 1915 |
| NLB/53/525 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, FRS | 24 October 1916 |
| NLB/53/536 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, FRS | 25 October 1916 |
| NLB/13/554 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society, care of Dr Grindrod, Wyche Side, Malvern | 7 October 1896 |
| MC/12/344 | Letter from Roland Trimen, South African Museum, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 7 July 1883 |
| MC/12 | Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1880-1883 |
| MC/13/55 | Letter from R [Roland] Trimen, South Africa Museum, Cape Town, to Professor G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 3 June 1884 |
| MC/13 | Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1884 |
| MC/25/213 | Letter from Mary Salter, Romsdal, Torquay, to the [Royal Society] | November 1910 |
| MC/25/260 | Letter from Roland Trimen, "Southbury", Lawn Road, Guildford, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society | 8 November 1910 |
| MC/25/259 | Letter from [Roland Trimen], 6 Church Circle, South Farnborough, Hants, to Dr Sir Archibald Geikie, President of the Royal Society | 5 February 1910 |
| NLB/43/108 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Roland Trimen, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 November 1910 |
| MC/31/150 | Letter from [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, Wykeham House, Oxford, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 25 July 1916 |