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If an event that occurred in the life of the subject requires further explanation, elaborate. Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill (23 October 1911 – 18 August 1963) was a British medical doctor, naturalist, ornithologist and curator of Singapore’s Raffles Museum. His main interest, area of expertise and legacy of published knowledge was the natural, geographical and cultural history of Malaya, Singapore and the historically associated Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Birth Birthday Biography

Gibson-Hill was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, grew up in Birmingham, and was educated at Malvern College in Worcestershire and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1933 he graduated with a Second in Natural Science Tripos, and subsequently enrolled at the King's College Hospital Medical School.

In 1938 Gibson-Hill married a fellow houseman, Margaret Halliday, before departing to serve as the resident medical officer on Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. He was there from September 1938 to December 1940, following which he moved to work on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for another ten months, where he was joined by his wife after she had completed her medical training. During his time on these islands he studied the local fauna, making collections of specimens for the Raffles Museum.

Towards the end of 1941 the couple went to Malaya where she found a job at the Alor Star general hospital while he was appointed a health officer in Singapore's health department. He was also made Assistant Curator of the Raffles Museum. However, he had arrived in Singapore only four days before it fell to Japanese forces, and was soon interned in Changi as a prisoner of war, though his wife had managed to escape.

During his internment he practiced ornithology and wrote a bunch of books.

Three months after being released from internment, in 1945 Gibson-Hill boarded a whaler bound for South Georgia on an expedition to collect specimens for the Falkland Islands Museum, and to photograph Antarctic seabirds. In March 1946 he finally returned to England on an oil tanker on which he served as health officer. He returned to Singapore in 1947, becoming Curator of Zoology at the Raffles Museum. For two years he was also Acting Professor of Biology at the Singapore College of Medicine. In 1956 he succeeded Michael Tweedie as Director of the Museum.

Gibson Hill also served in the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, which he had joined in 1940 and which was closely associated with the Museum, as Assistant Secretary and Treasurer (1947–1948), Secretary (1950–1955), Editor of its journal (1948–1961) and as President (1956–1961). He joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1948 and gained its Associate in 1948 remaining a member until his death.

Gibson-Hill's health began to deteriorate in the late 1950s; he was a diabetic and a heavy smoker and was often hospitalised for cerebral and general oedema. He was found dead at his home in Singapore shortly before he was due to retire as Director of the Raffles Museum. He was the last expatriate Briton to hold that position.

Books

Academic:

Landmarks of American Literature test . New Delhi: Prestige (March 2007). Politics of Location in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas, co-edited with Anil Raina (Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 2003). Text Book entitled An Annotated Anthology of English and American Poetry for MA (University Grants Commission Text Book Award). Chandigarh: Panjab University Publication Bureau, 2002. Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of America, eds. Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, Somdatta Mandal and Vijay Kumar Sharma. New Delhi:Prestige Press, 2002 From Slant to Straight: Recent Trends in Women's Poetry. New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 2000. T. S. Eliot's Use of Popular Sources (Mellen Press, USA, 1997). This was her Post-Doctoral Fulbright project for which research was carried out at the Houghton (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA), Beinecke (Yale), Harry Ramson Centre (Austin, Texas), and New York Public Library. Tiresias and Other Masks: English and American Poetry after The Waste Land. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1994. Confession and Beyond: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House, 1992.

Creative Writing

Novel: Spots of Time: A Novel. Chandigarh: Graphit India Oct 2007 Play: The Seduction and Betrayal of Cat Whiskers: An Academic Satire. Chandigarh: Graphit India Oct 2007. Spots of Time

This is a novel published in October 2007. Spots of Time, interspersed with a sprinkling of verse, traces the interweaving stories of these two women, moving back and forth in time, progressing through flashbacks and reminiscences. Tangential characters emerge from the margins, come to the foreground with their own stories, and then recede. As the story unfolds, the various pieces of the collage are linked together by the narratorial consciousness that observes, assimilates and records a myriad different experiences, ranging from professional hazards in an academic environment to more agonizing issues of parenting a special child while coping with personal aspirations and ambitions.

The narratology is metafictional; the master narrative holds together several embedded little stories and yet is a coherent whole, inlaid with literary allusions, traversing an extensive terrain, from a tiny colony of the City Beautiful nestling in the Shivalik foothills to far-off places across vast oceanic distances. More information is available on Jaidka's blog. The Seduction and Betrayal of Cat Whiskers

This is a play – an academic satire that winds in and out through the corridors of an institution of  higher learning, uses the comic lens to look at some of the flaws in the academia. What happens, for instance, behind the scenes in a major university? Who are the power brokers? What are the politics that operate in the system and at what different levels? How are appointments and promotions made? Is there any fair-play or justice? These are some of the questions raised in this play. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the problems highlighted here are found on almost all campuses, in India and abroad.

The aim is not to target all academics, universities and colleges as corrupt but to take a peek at their not-so-pleasant side which, with a little effort and commitment, may be cured if we have the will to do so. More information is available on Jaidka's blog. Research projects

Jaidka wrote her doctoral dissertation on the poetry of Sylvia Plath in 1981 and since then has been engaged in several postdoctoral research projects. Among other subjects, she has worked on twentieth-century British and American Poetry, Diasporic Writing from India, Narratives and Narratology, and Contemporary World Literatures. She has also supervised several M.Phil. and Ph.D.dissertations.

International Awards/Honours/Distinctions Most recently, in March – April 2008, Jaidka was awarded the Lillian Robinson Fellowship by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Feminist Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Her earlier international engagements are listed here:

Nov – Dec 2006: Visiting Academic, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, UK. 2005-07: Member, Executive Council of the International American Studies Association (IASA). 1998-99: International Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, at the International Forum for US Studies, University of Iowa. 1996, April-May: Fellowship, Salzburg Seminar Workshop on “Themes in Contemporary American Literature” (April 1996) sponsored by USIA, Washington. 1995, September-October: Resident Fellowship, Bellagio Study and Conference Center (sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation), Italy. 1991-92: Post-Doctoral Fulbright Research Grant, Harvard and Yale Universities, USA. Manju Jaidka is on the Editorial Boards of international journals published in the USA and UK. Awards/Distinctions/Positions held in India 1998- to date: Chief functionary of MELUS-India (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, India Chapter) and MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World). 1998-2000: Member, Board of Directors, American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad. 1996-98: Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee of ASRC, Hyderabad. 1994: University Grants Commission Text Book Award. 1991, March: Olive I. Reddick (Sr.) Award for the best literature paper presented at the annual conference of the Indian Association for American Studies, Bombay. 1989, August: William Mulder Research Grant from ASRC, Hyderabad. Invited talks Jaidka has been an invited plenary/ keynote speaker at numerous conferences, in India and abroad.

International speaking engagements:

Jaidka has most recently delivered a public lecture in Canada, at the University of Concordia, Montreal. In the United States she visited the U of California in November 2007 and lectured at Fresno, Irvine, Riverside and Cupertino. In April 2006 she attended a conference at AnnArbor and also lectured at U of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. In 2004 she was a resource person at the American Studies Institiute at Dartmouth. She has also delivered invited lectures at SUNY Buffalo, U of Pennsylvania, U of Vermont, U of Miami, U Pittsburgh, U Chicago, Loyola U Chicago, U Cincinnati, Denver, Boulder – CO, MIT – Boston, Louisville (Kentucky), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), and University of Iowa (USA); In UK has delivered visiting engagements / lectures at Oxford, Birmingham, Nottingham Trent, Northampton, London, and Colchester In Europe at Heidelberg (Germany), Salzburg (Austria), Bellagio (Italy); and at Dhaka in Bangladesh. She has also presented papers at international conferences like the ALA, NEMLA, MLA and the PCA. References / See also

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Information from RPS membership records supplied by Michael Pritchard on 2 August 2018. www.rps.org Archived 2 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine.

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