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Ethelwynn Trewavas

b. Penzace, Cornwall, England 5 November 1900; d. England 16 August 1993

She was a research assistant to C. Tate Regan in 1928 when he was made Director of the British Museum (Natural History).  She did not officially joined the BM until 1935 as an Assistant Keeper although the BM had its first women members of staff in 1928-1929.  She worked mostly on African freshwater fishes.  Dr Trewavas described Clarias cavernicola (Trewavas 1936).