Basil Derek Wragge Morley (1920 – 22 January 1969) born in Cambridge, son of a clergyman.
A year after this, he read two papers to the International Congress for Entomology at Berlin, chairing one of the sessions.
[3] Derek Wragge Morley also served as Scientific Editor for both Picture Post Magazine and the Financial Times, as well as acting as a consultant for films on scientific subjects and the application of the new sciences of his day in industry, including work on early computers.
[6] He wrote a book about computing machines, entitled "Automatic Data Processing", which was published in 1961 by Her Majesty's Stationery Office for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and acted as a scientific consultant to a film about the application of computers in industry and the pros and cons of installing such systems, entitled "This Automaton Age".
His book Ants (1953), written for the New Naturalist monograph series, was dedicated to his mentor, Horace Donisthorpe.