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R. B. Freeman
Richard Broke Freeman (1 April 1915 – 1 September 1986) was a zoologist, historian of zoology, bibliographer of natural history and book collector.〔"Mr Richard Broke Freeman", ''Archives of Natural History'', Vol. I, Part 3, October 1986, p. 338.〕 Known professionally as R. B. Freeman, he compiled comprehensive reference works on Charles Darwin〔John van Wyhe, "Preface to the second online edition (2007)", ''Charles Darwin: A Companion'' – (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online ), November 2007.〕 and on P. H. Gosse.〔R. B. Freeman and Douglas Wertheimer, ''(Philip Henry Gosse: A Bibliography )'' (London: Dawson, 1980).〕 He was “a meticulous scholar”〔 and a “brilliant bibliographer” who showed “a genuine modesty about his great erudition.”〔W.A. Smeaton, “Obituary: Richard Broke Freeman”, ''The British Journal for the History of Science'' vol. 21, March 1988, p. 101.〕 "It is darkly rumored among antiquarian booksellers that R. B. Freeman once missed a completely unrecorded and absurdly rare 1859 second issue of the first edition of ''The Origin of Species''", a reviewer wrote in the ''Times Literary Supplement'', "but this is also said to be the only mistake he has made during a lifetime of persistent scholarship and imaginative detective work in libraries, bookshops, sale-rooms, the attics of country houses and the trunks of the great-aunts of great men."〔Redmond O'Hanlon, review of R. B. Freeman, ''British Natural History Books 1495–1900: A Handlist'', in ''Times Literary Supplement'', 20 February 1981, p. 191.〕
==Life==
Freeman was born in London. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford (1935–38), he received his BA in 1938 (First Class honours in Zoology) and MA in 1950. He was reading for his doctor of philosophy degree with a Senior Demyship at Magdalen when World War II began. From 1939–46, he was employed in pest control by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at the Bureau of Animal Population in Oxford.〔 He rose to the rank of Major with the 111th Rocket Anti-Aircraft Battery, 101st Oxford Home Guard in 1944,〔(Supplement ), ''London Gazette'', 15 December 1944, p. 5745.〕 and was awarded an MBE for meritorious service.〔("MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire – Military Division)." ) Accessed 29 May 2012.〕
Freeman was married to Dr. Mary Whitear,〔R. B. Freeman, (''Darwin Pedigrees'' ), London, 1984, p. viii.〕 a zoologist at the University of London,〔J.S. Alexandrowicz and Mary Whitear, (“Receptor elements in the coxal region of Decapoda Crustacea” ), ''Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom'', 1957, pp. 603–628.〕 and they had two sons. In 1946, he was appointed Lecturer in Zoology at University College London, and from 1951 to his retirement in 1982, he was University Reader in Taxonomy. At the time of his death from a sudden heart attack, he was Emeritus Reader.〔
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