Archive of past Queensland Entomologists
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Douglas Stewart KETTLE (1918-2012)
Born in London, grew up in Clapham. Won scholarship to prestigious Mercer’s School then graduated B.Sc in biology from University College London in time to enter Royal Army Medical Corps at start of WW1I in 1939. Served in malaria control in North Africa and Italy. Used wartime Anopheles data to gain MSc from UCL in 1946. Served at Glasgow and Dundee University on midge control until 1951, submitting work for D.Sc. from London University in 1952. Taught at Edinburgh University then seconded to midge work in Jamaica 1958-60. Took up zoology professorship at Nairobi University 1961-69, then became Professor of Entomology at University of Queensland in mid-1969, serving until retirement in 1983, having relinquished the departmental headship in 1977. Many postgraduates undertook biting midge (Culicoides) projects under his supervision in Brisbane. Put his life’s expertise in medical entomology into successful textbook Medical and Veterinary Entomology in 1984 with an expanded 2nd edition in 1995, reprinted again 2000. President of ESQ in 1972, also served on first editorial committee of the Australian Entomologist. President of Australian Entomological Society 1981-82.
Obituary: McRae, T.M. 2012. News Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland 40(8):124-129.