Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer, KBE, FRS[1] (9 March 1862 – 22 October 1950) was a British zoologist.
Sidney Harmer was educated at Amersham Hall school, near Reading,[1] and then University College London (BSc 1880) and King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first in both parts of the natural sciences tripos (1884),[1][3] and was later awarded an Sc.D.
[1] He remained at Cambridge after graduating, and became university lecturer in advanced invertebrate morphology (1885), with a fellowship at King's College (1886), where he was also assistant tutor (1890).
In 1891, Harmer married Laura Russell Howell,[1] an alumna of the natural science tripos at the University of Cambridge.
[6] She had been a demonstrator in animal morphology at the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women there.