Edgar Barton Worthington (13 January 1905 – 14 October 2001) was a British ecologist and science administrator.
His early education was at Rugby School, before he went up to gain a First in Zoology at Gonville and Cauis College at Cambridge.
He took part in an African lakes expedition in 1927–31; and in an African research expedition 1934–37, for which he was awarded the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.
[2][3] In 1930, Worthington married Stella Johnson, who had been a member of the earlier expeditions he had undertaken and who shared many of his interests.
[1] Worthington is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of venomous viper, Bitis worthingtoni,[4] which is endemic to the high central Rift Valley of Kenya; and in the names of the Lake Victoria endemic cichlids Haplochromis bartoni and H.