Roland Trimen, F.R.S.
1916; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 97; Issue: 2441 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/097485a0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture studies
ResumoROLAND TRIMEN, the third son of Richard and Marianne Esther Trimen, of 3 Park Place Villas, Paddington, was born on October 29, 1840. He was educated at King's College School, which he entered in 1853, having previously been a pupil at a private school at Rottingdean. When about eighteen he took the voyage to Capetown for the benefit of his health, returning to England in 1859. In the following year he again sailed to Capetown and entered the Cape Civil Service. In 1872 he was appointed Curator of the South African Museum in succession to E. L. Layard. In 1881 he was appointed sole commissioner to the Phylloxera Congress at Bordeaux, and in 1886 a member of the Commission for extirpating this pest from the Cape vineyards. In 1892 he became a member of the Cape Fisheries Commission.
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