1638-1712 English zoologist who is best known for his Tractatus de Araneis, the world's first scientific work on spiders, published in English as Martin Lister's English Spiders (1678). Modern entomologists study Lister's book and...

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, 1655, graduated in 1658/9, and was elected a fellow in 1660. He became F.R.S. in 1671. He practised medicine at York until 1683, when he removed to London. In 1684 he received the degree of M.D. at...

Bert Lister's colourful life assures him of a small place in theatrical history. As dresser, valet, stage manager and chauffeur, he performed his services with no degree of servility whatsoever. Noel Coward nicknamed him "Nanny", an appellation Lister once took literally, answering a summons...

Actress often cast in glacial roles Moira Lister was an accomplished actress whose regal bearing found her often cast in patrician roles, though she also had a splendid sense of humour - she was a regular on the first radio series of Hancock's...