{{short description|English author & entomologist (1878-1954)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Malcolm Burr | honorific_suffix = | honorific_prefix = Dr | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Malcolm Burr chromolithography in Vanity Fair 1913.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1878|07|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Blackheath, London, England | death_date = {{death date and age |1954|7|13 |1878|7|6|df=y}} | death_place = Istanbul, Turkey | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Entomology | workplaces = | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = Radley College, New College, Oxford | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Dermaptera, Orthoptera | influences = | influenced = | awards = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | footnotes = }} '''Malcolm Burr''' (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954)<ref>{{cite web|title=Captain Malcolm Burr Chevalier Order of the White Eagle 5th Class|url=http://www.hambo.org/hazelwood/view_man.php?id=230|website=Hazelwood School War Memorial|accessdate=15 January 2017}}</ref> was an English author, translator, entomologist, and geologist. He taught English at the School of Economics in Istanbul, and spent most of his life in Turkey.<ref name="Manley2011">{{cite book|author=Deborah Manley|title=The Trans-Siberian Railway: A Traveller's Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r7y_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT265|date= 2011|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-908493-30-9|page=265}}</ref> <br />
== Life == Burr was a noted specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Reviewed Work: ''Genera Insectorum'' by Malcolm Burr|first=W. J.|last= Holland|journal=Science|volume= 36|number=934 |year=1912|pages=716–717|jstor= 1638103|doi=10.1126/science.36.934.716}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Rehn|first=James A. G.|title=On Orthoptera from the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil|journal=Transactions of the American Entomological Society|volume= 43|issue=3|year=1917|pages=335–363|jstor=25076975}}</ref> He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Uvarov|first1=B. P.|title=Dr. Malcolm Burr|journal=Nature|date=1954|volume=174|issue=4424|pages=294|doi=10.1038/174294b0|bibcode=1954Natur.174..294U|doi-access=free}}</ref> and the diversity and biology of the earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901.<ref name="WijesekaraNWijesinghe">{{cite journal| title=History of insect collection and a review of insect diversity in Sri Lanka | journal=Ceylon Journal of Science | volume=31|year=2003|pages=43–59 |author1=Wijesekara, Anura |author2=Wijesinghe, D.P |citeseerx = 10.1.1.379.2411}}</ref>
He also met and befriended the White émigré Paul Nazaroff, whose works he translated from Russian into English (including ''Hunted through Central Asia'').<ref>{{cite book|title=Hunted through Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDlfplled_cC&pg=PR3|isbn = 978-0-19-280368-9|accessdate=2 January 2022|last1 = Nazaroff|first1 = Paul|year = 2002| publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>
==Private life== He married Clara Millicent Goode in 1903 and they had four daughters, Gabrille Ruth Millicent, Rowena Frances, Yolanda Elizabeth and another.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hambo.org/hazelwood/view_man.php?id=230|title=Hazelwood School War Records|website=www.hambo.org|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * {{Cite Q|Q51462985}} * {{Cite Q|Q51515400}} * {{cite book|title=In Bolshevik Siberia, the land of ice and exile|first=Malcolm|last=Burr|place=London|publisher=H.F. & G. Witherby|date=1931}} * {{cite book|title=A Fossicker in Angola|first=Malcolm|last=Burr|date=1933}} * Dersu the Trapper (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Secker & Warburg, London 1939 (First English edition) * Hunted through Central Asia. On the run from Lenin's Secret Police (book) (translated by Malcolm Burr), published by Oxford University Press, London 1932 (First English edition)
== See also == * ''Epilandex burri'', a species of earwig named after Burr * List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1910–14)
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== External links == * [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp54468/malcolm-burr Malcolm Burr] at the National Portrait Gallery, London *{{Internet Archive author|sname=Malcolm Burr}}
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