Captain Cyril Diver , C.B. , C.B.E. , (1892 – 17 February 1969), was a civil servant and amateur naturalist. He became the first Director-General of the Nature Conservancy .
6-523: Diver was born in 1892, the son of Lt Colonel C Diver and the author, Maud Diver . Educated at Dover College and Trinity College, Oxford , after serving in France during World War I , he became a clerk in the House of Commons . In the 1930s he performed a systematic survey of the varied ecosystems of Studland , Dorset . A keen naturalist he was especially interested in molluscan ecology and genetics . During
12-555: A source of information for studies on Anglo-Indian culture. Her novels tried to instruct Englishmen on how they were to live in British India and included depictions of mixed marriages (for example in Lilamani and its sequels) between Indians and the English as a positive means of bringing East and West together. She countered Kipling's aphorism of "East is East and West is West, and never
18-673: The Royal Warwickshire Regiment , c. 1896 . They settled in England and had a son, Cyril (1892–1962). Maud Diver published her first novel, Captain Desmond, VC , in 1907. This and several subsequent books were successful and charted on the bestseller lists of the time. She specialised in the imperial romance genre which was popular at the time. However, unlike her contemporary, Kipling, Diver has been forgotten by later generations. There has been recent interest in her books as
24-640: The war he was a clerk to the select committee on national expenditure. In May 1940 the House of Commons appointed its "Miss K Midwinter" as the first woman to be a clerk. She was initially placed as an assistant to "Captain Diver", but she went on to have her own committee in the following year. Between 2012 and 2015, the National Trust ran a citizen science project named after Cyril – the Cyril Diver Project that
30-611: Was born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall in Murree , now in Pakistan , where her father Charles Henry Tilson Marshall served as an officer in the British Indian Army . She grew up in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), but received her education in England. She had a lifelong friendship with the sister of Rudyard Kipling , Trix Fleming . Diver married Thomas Diver (1860–1941), an officer in
36-525: Was designed to carry out a comprehensive ecological survey of the Studland peninsula in a similar manner to Diver's original study. Maud Diver Maud Diver (born Katherine Helen Maud Marshall ; 9 September 1867 – 14 October 1945) was an English author in British India who wrote novels, short stories, biographies and journalistic pieces primarily on Indian topics and Englishmen in India. Diver
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