10 Facts About Arthur Shipley

Sir Arthur Everett Shipley was an English zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Arthur Shipley was brought up in Datchet, Buckinghamshire, and educated at University College School.

Arthur Shipley enrolled at St Bartholomew's Hospital as a medical student in 1879, but in the following year transferred to Christ's College, Cambridge to read natural sciences, specialising in zoology.

Arthur Shipley particularly specialised in the study of parasitic worms, publishing nearly fifty papers on them and leading to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904.

Arthur Shipley stayed at Cambridge after graduation, being appointed university demonstrator in comparative anatomy in 1886, lecturer in the advanced morphology of the Invertebrata in 1894, and reader in zoology in 1908.

Arthur Shipley was elected a fellow of Christ's College in 1887 and became college tutor in natural sciences in 1892.

Arthur Shipley was co-editor, with George Nuttall, of the journal Parasitology from 1908 to 1914, and assisted in editing the Journal of Economic Biology from 1905 to 1913.

In 1918, Arthur Shipley was a member of the British University Mission to the United States, sent by the Foreign Office to counteract German propaganda in American universities and to promote postgraduate study by American students at British universities.

In recognition of this work and other wartime services, Arthur Shipley was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 1920 civilian war honours.

Arthur Shipley was appointed chairman of the governing body of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, on its foundation in 1921.