Francis Arthur Bather Explained

Francis Arthur Bather FRS^[1] (17 February 1863, in Richmond upon Thames – 20 March 1934) was a British palaeontologist, geologist and malacologist. His mother, Lucy Elizabeth Blomfield, was a daughter of Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London. His father, Arthur Henry Bather, who was deaf, was a clerk in the office of the Accountant-General for the Navy.^[2]

Bather joined the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1887.^[3] He became Keeper in succession to Arthur Smith Woodward in 1924, retiring in 1928.

Bather was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society, of which he also served as president. He was an Honorary Member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall,^[4] and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1909. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1928.^[5] In 1932 Bather was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.^[6]

He married Stina Bergöö, daughter of Adolf Bergöö of Stockholm, and sister of the Swedish artist Karin Bergöö Larsson and they had a daughter and two sons.^{[7] [8]} A photographic portrait is in the National Gallery.^[9]

Bibliography

• Puns of Shakspeare in Noctes Shaksperianae (1887)
• Crinoidea of Gotland, Stockholm (1893)
• 1895 . Bather . Francis Arthur . Francis Arthur Bather . (illustrated by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge) . 0. On Uintacrinus: a Morphological Study. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 1895 . 974–1004. 2020-04-13.
• The Genera and Species of Blastoidea (1899)
• The Man as Museum-Curator,'' Museums Journal, (1902).
• Chapters on Echinoderms in Lankester’s Treatise on Zoology, Encycl. Brit.
• Triassic Echinoderms of Bakony (1909)
• Cystidea from Girvan (1913)
• Studies in Edrioasteroidea (1915)

Notes and References

1. Lang . William Dickson. William Dickson Lang. Francis Arthur Bather. 1863-1934 . 10.1098/rsbm.1934.0014 . . 1 . 3 . 302 . 1934 .
2. Web site: A 19th century Deaf civil servant | UCL UCL Ear Institute & Action on Hearing Loss Libraries. blogs.ucl.ac.uk.
3. Bather, Francis Arthur. Who's Who. 1907. 59. 110.
4. Web site: DServe Archive Catalog Show. collections.royalsociety.org.
5. Web site: Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 28 May 2011.
6. Web site: Mary Clark Thompson Medal . National Academy of Sciences . 14 February 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195631/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson . 29 December 2010 .
7. Book: https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-205793. Bather, Francis Arthur, (17 Feb. 1863–20 March 1934). WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U205793 . 978-0-19-954089-1 . Who Was Who . 2007 .
8. .http://www.sydnarkenytt.se/blogg/artikel/kvinnokamp-i-hallsberg#.V30AKixmp7s
9. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw109363/Francis-Arthur-Bather