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Dudley Zoo & Castle
Corporate body · 1937-

Dudley Zoo & Castle is a zoo located within the grounds of Dudley Castle in the town of Dudley, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England. The zoo went into receivership in 1977 and was purchased by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. Dudley Zoo is now operated by Dudley and West Midlands Zoological Society, founded in 1978 and a registered charity.

The owner of Dudley Castle, the Third Earl of Dudley, decided to create a zoo in the castle grounds in the 1930s. It was Oxford Zoo, which closed in 1936, that supplied Dudley with the majority of its initial collection of animals. The zoo was built between 1935 and 1937, with Dr Geoffrey Vevers, Superintendent of London Zoo acting as an advisor. Thirteen zoo buildings were designed by Berthold Lubetkin and engineering was carried out by Ove Arup
Duff, James
Person · 1814-1879

James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman and politician
Duffield, A
Person · 1891-

Toilet Attendant at ZSL London Zoo
Dulk, W
Person · 1907-

Gardener at ZSL London Zoo
Duncan, Francis Martin
Duncan, Francis Martin
Person · 1873-1961

Francis Martin Duncan was born in 1873. He was ZSL Librarian and Clerk of Publications from 1919, taking over from previous librarian Henry Peavot's widow Maude who stepped into the role after Henry was killed during the war in France in 1917.

Duncan was also a skilled photographer, and is noted as having been a pioneer of applying the cinematograph to the movements of invertebrate and microscopic animals. He is also noted as having contributed greatly (along with his assistant) to the preparation of a new library catalogue and a geographical card catalogue.

He died in 1961