Cecil Warburton (6 February 1854 – 7 October 1958) was a British zoologist, arachnologist and acarologist who worked at the
Royal Agricultural Society and specialized in ticks of medical and veterinary importance.
Warburton was born at
Salford
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, son of William, and was educated at Old Trafford and
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in Manchester. He went to
Christ's College, Cambridge
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in 1886 graduating BA in 1889 and MA in 1892. He taught for some time at Old Trafford and then worked at the Royal Agricultural Society from 1893 teaching at the
School of Agriculture, Cambridge. In 1909 he began to work with
G. H. F. Nuttall at the
Quick Laboratory in Cambridge and was a university demonstrator in medical entomology from 1912 to 1931. He moved to the
Molteno Institute in 1921 along with Nuttall, collaborating with him until his death in 1937. Warburton contributed to the Cambridge Natural History volume on Arachnida. Warburton described numerous species of tick in journals. He was unmarried, and died at his home in Grantchester, Cambridge.
References
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Spiders(1912)
* G.H.F. Nuttall, C. Warburton, W.F. Cooper and L.E. Robinson (1908-1915
Ticks. A monograph of the Ixodoidea(in three parts). Cambridge University Press.
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1854 births
1958 deaths
British arachnologists
Acarologists
20th-century British zoologists
19th-century British zoologists