Dorothea Bate
(1878-1951)

woman and palaeontologist

Died aged 72

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved.

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Commemorated on 1 plaque

Yma ganwyd y paleontolegydd a'r fenyw gyntaf i'w chyflogi gan yr Amguaddfa Astudiaethau Natur, Llundain. Dorothea Bate 1878-1951 Palaeontologist and the first woman employed at the Natural History Museum, London, was born here

English translation:

Napier House, Spillman Street, Carmarthen, United Kingdom where they was born (1878)