S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science

Mann, Mr Gother Charles Maclear (insect collection)
Born: 13 January 1867, Cape Town, South Africa. Died: 2 April 1933, Cape Town, South Africa. Active in: SA.

Gother Charles Maclear Mann, general manager and secretary of the South African Association for the Administration and Settlement of Estates, was the youngest son of William Mann* of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, and his wife Caroline Anne, born Maclear. He was educated at the Diocesan College in Cape Town. In 1903 he became a member of the South African Philosophical Society and remained a member for some time after it became the Royal Society of South Africa in 1908. His hobbies were sport and mountaineering.

Gother Mann was probably the person identified as "Mr G. Mann" who collected several species of insects at elevations of about 2 400 m and 3 000 m in the Drakensberg range. His specimens were presented to the South African Museum in Cape Town in 1897, via Dr H.W. Rudolf Marloth*. Three of the species proved to be new.

List of sources:
Cape of Good Hope. Report of the trustees of the South African Museum, 1897.

FamilySearch: Gothar Charles Maclear Mann. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LDPP-3BH/gother-charles-maclear-mann-1867-1933 AND https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91W-P3GH-H?view=index&action=view&cc=2517051&lang=en

Royal Society of South Africa. Transactions, 1908-1910, Vol. 1, list of members.

South African Philosophical Society. Transactions, 1906-1907, Vol. 16 and 17: Lists of members.

South African who's who, 1908, 1919/20.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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