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Dr. Fraser
Henry Malcolm Fraser (1874 - 1970), beekeeper and historian of beekeeping; British.
He was born in Wandsworth in 1874, the first of four children from the second marriage of James Fraser, a prosperous colonial businessman who had two adult children from his first marriage.
Malcolm graduated as B.A of the University of London and was a teacher in several small private schools before obtaining a position in the school of Alleyne's Grammar School in Stone, Staffordshire where he remained for the rest of his teaching career, and became Head of the same.
Malcolm Fraser entered enthusiastically into the life of Staffordshire, particularly as a member of the North Staffordshire Field Club, a society that investigated the natural history and archaeology of the area. Probably with this association where intersó in the bees and the beekeeping their legacy, in 1925, was two Latin works on agriculture with another member of the club, the Reverend Thomas Barns, vicar of Hilderstone near Stone, that formed the basis of an extensive library on beekeeping. Malcolm Fraser began to investigate the history of beekeeping and submitted his thesis on beekeeping in antiquity to the university of London. It was accepted for his PhD in 1930 and published in book form the following year. In 1936 he also published a translation of the entries in Domesday Book referring to Staffordshire. He dedicated this to the memory of Thomas Barns and his friends in the Field Club.
In his retirement Malcolm Fraser and his wife moved to the south in the years from 1940 to the suburbs of London, first to Pinner and soon to Northwood. He continued working on bees; writing and giving lectures on the subject led to correspondence with many other experts and fans. His library grew through the years 1940 to 1950 but he always was prepared to lend books, even his rarer volumes, to enthusiasts. Malcolm Fraser was closely linked with the association of British beekeepers (British Beekeepers' Association), (BBKA), serving as a member of the council until the reorganization in 1945. He was president of the central association of beekeepers (Central Association of Bee-keepers), a body just formed to encourage an individual scientific approach to the subject, rather that to concentrate on local groups.
Finally, after a long and active retirement, Dr. H. Malcolm Fraser died in 1970 at the age of 95.
English version of the Spanish Apicultura Wiki entry.