| AdminHistory | Bather was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and joined the Museum in 1887 as an Assistant in the Department of Geology. Although he studied a number of invertebrate groups in his early years at the Museum, it was the echinoderms, and particularly the crinoids, that took up most of his time. Bather became Assistant Keeper in 1902 on the promotion of Smith Woodward, and succeeded him as Keeper in 1924, retiring from the Museum in 1928. Bather had wide interests in natural history, taxonomy, literature and museum studies. He travelled widely, and was a regular visitor to Sweden.
Reference:
Lang, W D, 1934. Francis Arthur Bather (1863-1934). 'Obituary notices of the Royal Society' 3: 303-314. |