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Robert John Tillyard

English–australian entomologist and geologist (1881–1937).

Born January 31st, 1881 in Norwich.

Died January 13th, 1937 at 55 years old in Goulburn (car collision).

Occupations
entomologist, naturalist, paleontologist, scientific collector

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel