Zoosymposia 19: 010–026 (2020) ISSN 1178-9905 (print edition) https://www.mapress.com/j/zs ZOOSYMPOSIA Copyright © 2020 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1178-9913 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.19.1.5 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FEE0788D-311A-450A-9980-FFDFDD9A8CB0 Rodney Phillips Dales: influential annelid researcher, natural historian, editor, artist, gardener and architectural enthusiast (1927–2020) ANDREW S.Y. MACKIE1,*, CLARE DALES2, R. MICHAEL L. KENT3, DAVID R. DIXON4, RUFUS M.G. WELLS5 & LYNDA M. WARREN6 1Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, Wales UK. �
[email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2308-0595 2Heritage Consultant & Artist, Eastbourne, Sussex, England UK. 353 Foxdown, Wadebridge, Cornwall, England UK. �
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[email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1047-1709 532 Abbotsford Tce, Devonport, Auckland 0624, New Zealand. �
[email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4927-710X 6Emeritus Professor in Environmental Law, Aberystwyth University, Wales UK. �
[email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-8367 *Corresponding author Rodney Phillips Dales was born in Hornchurch, Essex on 15 January 1927. His father Sidney Phillips Dales was a Chartered Architect, his mother Muriel Emily (née Tattersall) kept the family home in the Squirrel’s Heath district, and frequently worked in her husband’s practice. Rodney and his brother Gordon (b. 1922) were raised in a strict Methodist family. They led a modest life, but one full of interest and diversion.