Open Access<p class="ZootaxaTitle"><strong>Rodney Phillips Dales: influential annelid researcher, natural historian, editor, artist, gardener and architectural enthusiast (1927–2020)</strong></p>
Author(s) -
Andrew S. Y. Mackie,
Clare Dales,
R. Michael L. Kent,
David R. Dixon,
R. M. G. Wells,
Lynda M. Warren
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zoosymposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1178-9913
pISSN - 1178-9905
DOI - 10.11646/zoosymposia.19.1.5
Subject(s) - brother , art history , architecture , performance art , natural (archaeology) , management , art , sociology , law , history , political science , visual arts , archaeology , economics
Rodney Phillips Dales was born in Hornchurch, Essex on 15 January 1927. His father Sidney Phillips Dales was a Chartered Architect, his mother Muriel Emily (née Tattersall) kept the family home in the Squirrel’s Heath district, and frequently worked in her husband’s practice. Rodney and his brother Gordon (b. 1922) were raised in a strict Methodist family. They led a modest life, but one full of interest and diversion. Frequent trips to the seaside, and visits to buildings and artist friends of his father, helped shape Rodney’s interests and future career. He became fascinated by the diversity of the natural world and the wonderful architecture he encountered on his frequent bike rides into the Essex countryside.