Ronald Henderson Hedley CB FZS (2 November 1928 – 11 July 2006) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Natural History Museum from 1976 to 1988.
Hedley was first employed at the Natural History Museum in 1955.
[1] From 1977 to 1980, Hedley was the honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London.
[3] He was educated at Durham Johnston School, followed by King's College at Durham University (now Newcastle University), where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Zoology and a PhD in 1953.
[2] Hedley married Valmai Mary Griffith in 1957, the couple had one son.