Kate Bertram

Kate Bertram
JP
President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
In office
1970–1979
Preceded byAnna McClean Bidder
Succeeded byPhyllis Hetzel
Personal details
Born(1912-07-08)8 July 1912
Died6 July 1999(1999-07-06) (aged 86)
SpouseColin Bertram
EducationHayes Court, Kent and Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Bertram's 1942 report included the cichlids of Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi). This collection is in Toronto Zoo.

Cicely Kate Bertram, JP (née Ricardo; 8 July 1912 – 6 July 1999) was a British academic specialising in East African and Palestinian fisheries, and working with her husband Colin Bertram on sirenea.[1][2] Part of the 1930s "Cambridge school" of biologists, she contributed to two seminal reports on freshwater fish in eastern Africa.

  1. ^ "Obituary: Kate Bertram". The Independent. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Sirenews". 26 December 2001. Archived from the original on 26 December 2001. Retrieved 20 March 2021.