Malcolm Burr (6 July 1878 - 13 July 1954) 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.
Life Burr was a noted specialist of earwigs (Dermaptera) and crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera). He was the first to classify earwigs on the basis of copulatory organs, and the diversity and biology of the earwigs of Sri Lanka is well studied due to major contributions by Burr in 1901.
He also met and befriended the White émigré Paul Nazaroff, whose works he translated from Russian into English (including Hunted through Central Asia).
Private life He married Clara Millicent Goode in 1903 and they had four daughters, Gabrille Ruth Millicent, Rowena Frances, Yolanda Elizabeth and another.
Bibliography
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)
References
External links Malcolm Burr at the National Portrait Gallery, London