Ronald A. Senior-White

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Ronald A. Senior-White FRSE FRES (1891–30 October 1954) was an English entomologist and malaria expert who worked mainly in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He studied Diptera, especially mosquitoes. Not much is known about his life. He probably was the son of a tea planter. In 1917 he moved to Suruganga, Ceylon, to manage a tea plantation and became interested in mosquitoes.

He later moved to Calcutta, India, and from 1928 to 1947 he worked as a malariologist with the Bengal Nagpur Railway. He collected flies and wrote extensively, including the Calliphoridae volume in the Fauna of British India series. He worked with Daphne Aubertin and John Smart of the British Museum.

In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, John Stephenson, Robert Stewart MacDougall and James Ritchie. During World War II he joined the Indian Medical Service and rose to the rank of Major. In 1947, at age 56, he became government entomologist in Trinidad, studying Anopheles mosquitoes, especially Anopheles aquasalis. He died in Trinidad on 30 October 1954.