John Coney Moulton
John Coney Moulton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1886 |
| Died | 1926 London |
| Employer | British Army |
| Notable work | Sarawak Museum Journal |
| Children | Alex Moulton |
John Coney Moulton OBE (11 December 1886 – 6 June 1926) was a British Army officer and amateur zoologist who spent many years in South-East Asia.[1][2]
Career
He was curator of the Sarawak Museum from November 1908 to January 1915, and founding editor of the Sarawak Museum Journal in 1911.[3] He served with the Wiltshire Regiment in India 1915–1916 and as staff officer in Singapore 1916–1919, following which he resigned with the rank of Major. In July 1919, he was appointed Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore, a position he held until 1923. After this, Moulton returned to Sarawak as the Chief Secretary to the third White Rajah, Charles Vyner Brooke.
Moulton specialised in research on cicadas.[4] He was interested in entomology, birds and mammals. Most of his scientific papers were published in the journals of the Straits, and Malayan branches of the Royal Asiatic Society as well as in the Sarawak Museum Journal.
The genus Moultonianthus Merr. and many species of plants were named after him.[5]
Personal life
Moulton was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.[6] The inventor Alex Moulton was his son.[1][7] After returning to England on 29 May 1926 for a three-month break and visit to his Wiltshire ancestral home, The Hall, Bradford-on-Avon, he fell ill on the following day. He was operated on for appendicitis in a London nursing home by Arbuthnot Lane but died there on 6 June at the age of 39. He is buried in a family grave with his parents and widow in the churchyard at Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon.
References
- ^ a b "ALEX MOULTON - FAMILY BACKGROUND". moultontrust.org.
- ^ "Major John Coney Moulton, O.B.E., M.A., D.Sc". The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 62: 242. October 1926.
- ^ Raffles Museum: former Directors. Accessed 14 January 2007
- ^ Banks, Edward: Reminiscence of a Curator, Sarawak Museum Journal Vol XXXII, No. 53 (New Series), August 1983
- ^ National Herbarium of the Netherlands – JC Moulton. Accessed 14 January 2007
- ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists. p. 504. ISBN 978-1-000-12449-1.
- ^ Weber, Bruce (18 December 2012). "Alex Moulton, Creator of Quirky Small-Wheeled Bike, Dies at 92". The New York Times.