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Richard Laws
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Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland
Born in 1926
Died in 000

Richard Laws was a zoologist whose twin areas of expertise form an odd pair – large African mammals, and his great specialism, Antarctic elephant seals and great whales. He served as director of the British Antarctic Survey between 1973 and 1987, was a member of the International Whaling Commission, and was from 1985 to 1996 Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

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