Richard Maitland Laws

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Block, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Maitland; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000898; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247414000898

Richard Maitland Laws (Fig. 1) died on 7 October 2014. Usually known as known as Dick Laws, his career spanned the world. From his Northumbrian upbringing his career as a zoologist took him via Cambridge University to the Southern Ocean, the cold of Antarctica, the heat of Africa, the Directorship of the British Antarctic Survey and the Mastership of a Cambridge College.