Chronological events in Miriam Rothschild's life
Here is a selection of some of the more significant events in Miriam Rothschild's life:
- 1908 5 August: Miriam Louisa Rothschild born
- 1914 Spent the summer in Hungary at the home of her mother’s family.
- 1928 Began to study at Chelsea Polytechnic (to 1933)
- 1938 Took over editorship of Novitates Zoologicae (until 1941) the Tring Museum Journal founded by her uncle Walter
- 1940 Worked for the Foreign Office during the war
- 1943 Married George Lane
- 1962 Founded the Schizophrenia Research Fund
- 1967 Appointed a trustee of the Natural History Museum, serving until 1975
- 1968 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oxford
- 1978 Hosted the world’s first International Flea Conference at her home in Northamptonshire.
- 1982 Appointed CBE
- 1983 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gothenburg
- 1984 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hull
- 1985 Delivered the Oxford University Romanes Lecture on “Animals and Man”
- 1985 Elected to the Royal Society
- 1986 Received Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University
- 1986 4 November: Delivered address at the inaugural John Foster Memorial Lecture
- 1987 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leicester
- 1989 Received Honorary Doctorate from the Open University
- 1989 Awarded medal from the International Society of Chemical Ecology
- 1991 Awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the RHS
- 1993 Mendel Award, Czech Scientific Academy
- 1995 Donated Windsor Cave, Jamaica to the World Wildlife Fund (UK)
- 1995 Helped to secure funding for the extension to Magdalen Hill, Butterfly Conservation’s reserve in Hampshire
- 1996 Opened the National Dragonfly Museum at Ashton Wold
- 1999 Received Honorary Doctorate at the University of Sussex
- 1999 Received Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cambridge
- 2000 Appointed DBE
- 2001 Received Lifetime Achievement Award ‘for love of Lepidoptera and dedication to nature conservation and research on British butterflies’ by the Butterfly Conservation charity
- 2005 20 January: Died at home, Ashton Wold