Haddow, Alexander John

Alex Haddow was born in Scotland in December 1912, and as a boy showed intense interest in insects. His first degree was in zoology, from Glasgow University in 1934. He took another 4 years to complete an M.D. degree. Next, he studied at the London School of Tropical Medicine for a diploma in tropical medicine. In 1941 he traveled to Kenya and studied biting cycles of mosquitoes under conditions of a 24-h continuous catch, developing and standardizing methods for collecting and analyzing the data. Other work in Africa was on the epidemiology of yellow fever, and it involved collecting and sampling from monkeys. After 24 years in Africa, he returned to Britain in 1965, to become Administrative Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Glasgow University. His honors include election to the fellowship of The Royal Society as well as the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died in Glasgow on December 26, 1978, survived by his wife, Peggy, and two sons.