William David Lindsay Ride

William David Lindsay Ride , usually credited as W. D. L. Ride, was an Australian vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist who was the chair of the committee that wrote updated editions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Career

Ride was born in London, England, in 1926, the eldest son of Sir Lindsay Tasman Ride. In 1957, he was appointed director of the Western Australian Museum in Perth, as well as a reader in zoology at the University of Western Australia. In 1975, he was appointed director of the Australian Biological Resources Study, located within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, in Canberra.
Ride worked for the CSIRO from 1974 to 1980.He was also the head of the School of Applied Science at Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1982–87, and was appointed principal of the college in 1987. Following retirement in 198, he became a visiting fellow at the Australian National University until 2002.
In 1984, Ride was made a member of the Order of Australia.
He died in 2011 in Canberra, aged 85, survived by his wife Margaret and five children including the writer, curator and academic Peter Ride whose partner Ian Iqbal Rashid is a well known writer and filmmaker.