Born in Edinburgh but spent his early childhood in India before returning to attend George Watson’s College. After a period of National Service he went to Edinburgh University where he studied zoology gaining a Ph.D in 1963. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1964 and remained at the University as a lecturer until taking semi-retirement to run a small farm at Wester Duncanstone in North Aberdeenshire in 1990. His obituary in Latissimus, 22, February 2007, p.18, from which this account is taken, states that he was a man of many interests from mountaineering to pottery and the cultivation of orchids. His interest in entomology involved all insects including beetles and he was an active member of the Balfour-Browne Club. Ewing published over forty papers mainly on behaviour genetics, neurophysiology, mechanisms of flight and song, and one book Arthropod Bioacoustics: Neurobiology and Behaviour. His collection remained with his wife after his death but is eventually destined for the RSM. (MD 11/09)
Dates
14 August 1935 – 21 November 2006