Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
| Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell | |
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| Born |
August 22, 1866 Norwood, Greater London |
| Died | San Diego, California |
| Resting place | Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | English |
| Fields | Zoology, Botany |
| Institutions | New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico Normal University, University of Colorado, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History |
| Alma mater | Middlesex Hospital Medical School |
| Notable students | Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Cockerell |
| Spouses | Annie Fenn Cockerell; Wilmatte Porter Cockerell |
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948) was an American zoologist, born at Norwood, England, and brother of Sydney Cockerell. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and then studied botany in the field in Colorado in 1887–90. Subsequently, he became a taxonomist and published numerous papers on the Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, and Mollusca, as well as publications on paleontology and evolution.
Cockerell was born in Norwood, Greater London and died in San Diego, California.
He married Annie Penn in 1891 (she died in 1893) and Wilmatte A. Porter in 1900. In 1901, he named the ultramarine blue chromodorid Mexichromis porterae in her honor. Before and after their marriage in 1900, they frequently went on collecting expeditions together and assembled a large private library of natural history films, which they showed to schoolchildren and public audiences to promote the cause of environmental conservation.
After his death he was buried in Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado.
Between 1891 and 1901 Cockerell was curator of the public museum of Kingston, Jamaica, professor of entomology of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station. In 1900–03 he was instructor in biology at the New Mexico Normal University. While there he taught and mentored the botanist Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis. In 1903–04 Cockerell was the curator of the Colorado College Museum; and in 1904 he became lecturer on entomology and in 1906 professor of systematic zoology, at the University of Colorado, where he worked with Junius Henderson in establishing the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. During World War II he operated the Desert Museum in Palm Springs, California.
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