Univ Record 2018

Outside of his career, David dedicated a great deal of effort to Alcoholics
Anonymous, founding the Crested Butte Annual Conference in 1984 and positively
impacting the lives of many others through his 35 years of sobriety and recovery. He was
deeply involved in his communities, most recently working hard with his wife Pattizo
to develop and maintain the Heritage Park Museum of East Texas. He loved to sing
and play the guitar, having pulled together several bands across the years. Above all,
David was a devoted father who loved his kids and grandkids and spent time with them
whenever he could. David is survived by his wife, Pattizo Humphries of Edgewood;
his two children, Robert Willem Musslewhite of Washington, D.C., and Elisabeth
Mona (“Lysbet”) Zimmerman of Dallas and their mother Maria Mona Musslewhite; his
five grandchildren, Nolan Willem Musslewhite, Campbell Marie Musslewhite, Parker
Dare Musslewhite, Roxie Mae Zimmerman, and Layne Michael Zimmerman; and his
brother Charles Benton Musslewhite. He is predeceased by his parents and his brother
Robert Chilton Musslewhite, Jr.
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SIR CLIVE CHRISTOPHER HUGH ELLIOTT, 4TH BARONET (Bryanston), died on 18
April 2018 aged 72. Born in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), the son of Sir Hugh Elliott, who
had himself come up to Univ in 1932, Clive was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford,
and at Bryanston before coming up to Univ to read Zoology. In
1968 he moved to South Africa, and studied ornithology at the
FitzPatrick Institute at the University of Cape Town, specialising
in the Cape Weaver. He was awarded a PhD in 1973. The year
before, Clive had become the first Ringing Officer for the newly
created National Bird Ringing Unit in South Africa. Friends
remember his setting nets out for birds in the small hours of the
night, and long drives in his old Peugeot 404 which was filled with
wooden ringing boxes and metal poles.
In 1975 Clive left South Africa to work for Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
working variously until 1986 in Chad, Tanzania, and Kenya
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as an ornithologist, ecologist and food protectionist. His main
area of research was the Red-billed Quelea (quelea quelea), a
bird notorious in Africa for its depredations on crops, to the point that it is sometimes
nicknamed “Africa’s feathered locust”. In 1989 Clive jointly edited a book Quelea Quelea:
Africa’s Bird Pest.
From 1989-95 Clive worked as a Country Project Officer for Eastern and Southern
Africa in Agriculture Operations, and then in 1995, moved to the Locust and Other
Migratory Pests Group Plant Protection Service of the UN, which was based in Rome.
In 2004 he was appointed Senior Officer of the Group. Friends remember that visitors to
Clive’s Rome office had to avoid midday, when he would set up a hammock there, lock
his door, and have a siesta, a habit adopted during his time in tropical Africa.
Clive retired in 2006 and moved to the UK, settling in South Leigh near Witney. He
continued to work as an independent consultant on migratory pests in agriculture, taking
an especial interest in efforts to develop alternatives to the use of chemical pesticides
in dealing with locusts, armyworm, and quelea birds. He published two more books,
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