Society in 1942 Regent's Park In 1943, he was appointed the first Scientific Director of the Zoological Society of London, a new post mainly concerned in organising all the scientific branches of the Society’s work as well as scientific problems concerning the animals at Regent’s Park Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo. Retirement and achievements Hindle retired from Regent's Park Zoo in 1951, when he also gave up his post as General Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Among many interests, he continued his work for the Royal Geographical Society, being Honorary Secretary from 1951 to 1961 and Honorary Vice-President in 1962. The major achievements of his career were his work on leishmaniasis, on yellow fever and on spirochaetoses, all three arthropod-borne. A minor achievement was that every golden hamster in Europe and elsewhere descends from two pairs found in Syria that he was given in 1931. Personal life In 1919, he married Irene Margaret Twist (d.1933), first cousin of Sir John Graham Kerr. In 1936, he married the former Ellen Mary Theodora Schroeder. They separated in 1951. There were no children by either marriage. Hindle died in a taxi in London on 22 January 1973. Sources P. C. C. Garnham, Edward Hindle 1886-1973, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 20 (Dec., 1974), pp. 217–234 https://www.jstor.org/stable/769639 Edward Hindle at 175 Heroes References 1886 births People from Sheffield University of California, Berkeley alumni Alumni of King's College London Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge British Army personnel of World War I Royal Engineers officers Academic staff of Cairo University Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Zoological Society of London Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society English biologists 1973 deaths Scientists from Yorkshire 20th-century biologists