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Kenneth Hedley Lewis (Ken) Key (1911 – 2002) was a South African-born entomologist who made significant contributions to Australia's locust problems in the 1940s.


 * Born 28 August 1911, Cape Town, South Africa
 * University of Cape Town, where he gained a bachelor of science with medals in botany and zoology in 1930. He gained a master of science degree the following year, with a thesis on the grasshoppers of the Cape Peninsula.
 * PhD, Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London Department of Entomology, 1936.
 * arrived in Perth in 1936.
 * locust problem, CSIR Division of Economic Entomology. This work continued through World War II.
 * He was awarded a doctor of science degree by the University of London in 1946.
 * In 1959 the Division of Entomology decided to organise its haphazard collections of insects into a unified system. Key was appointed Curator of the collections, later Chief Curator. In 1962 the Federal Government declared the division’s Australian National Insect Collection ‘a great national heritage’.
 * Key retired from CSIRO in 1976 but continued his studies of grasshopper taxonomy and biology as an honorary research fellow until 1994.
 * Died 11 January 2002
 * Occupation Entomologist
 * Kenneth Hedley L. Key was Chief Research Scientist, Division of Entomology, CSIRO.
 * Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1959.