Kathleen Haddon Rishbeth (13 May 1888 – 6 September 1961) was a British zoologist, photographer and collector of string figures.
She was educated at the Perse School for Girls and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she began studying zoology in 1907.
She and her sister Mary accompanied their parents to the United States in 1909, where the sisters helped collect string games from coastal communities in Alaska.
[1] As a woman, Haddon was ineligible to receive a degree from Cambridge University in 1911,[4]: 38 (although she did eventually receive a degree in 1948) but was appointed to work as a University Demonstrator in Zoology from 1911 to 1914.
[6] In September 1917, Kathleen Haddon married Oswald Rishbeth, an Australian geographer and classicist who served in the British military in World War 1.