Ronald A. Senior-White


Ronald A. Senior-White FRSE FRES was an English entomologist and malariologist who worked in India and Ceylon. His entomological studies concerned Diptera, especially the mosquitoes.

Biography

Little is known of Senior-White's life. He was probably the son of a tea plantation owner.
He moved to Suruganga in Ceylon in 1917 to manage a tea plantation, and became interested in mosquitoes. He moved to Calcutta, India and from 1928 to 1947 he served as a malariologist with the Bengal Nagpur Railway. He collected diptera and wrote extensively. He wrote the volume on Calliphoridae in the Fauna of British India series. He collaborated with Daphne Aubertin and John Smart of the natural history department of the British Museum.
In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, John Stephenson, Robert Stewart MacDougall and James Ritchie.
In the Second World War he joined the Indian Medical Service and rose to the rank of Major.
In 1947 aged 56 he and took up a position as government entomologist in Trinidad, studying Anopheles species. He was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1928.
He died in Trinidad on 30 October 1954.

Publications

On entomology (Diptera)