Ronald Hamlyn-Harris

Ronald Hamlyn-Harris was born in Eastbourne, England on 1 September 1874 to Hamlyn Huntingdon Harris, a retired lieutenant of the 18th Royal Hussars, and his wife, Sarah Wheeler.

Here he revitalised the science department, organised the raising of money to build a new laboratory and gave public lectures.

Here he became friends with the Australian ichthyologist James Douglas Ogilby who was involved in fish research and was pleased to be able to pass the museum's administrative work to the new director.

In 1911, Ogilby named the purple eagle ray (Myliobatis hamlyni), a fish he was describing for the first time, in honour of Hamlyn-Harris.

[2] Hamlyn-Harris left the museum because of ill health,[1] and after five years running a fruit farm, in 1922 he was put in charge of the government laboratory in Brisbane researching hookworms.