Read the bio below and try to give details on w. s. bristowe 's: - known for - death date - field - birth date - name - citizenship - alma mater Bio: william syer bristowe -lrb- 1 september 1901 -- 11 september 1979 -rrb- , who wrote under the name w. s. bristowe , was an english naturalist , a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders . he was educated at wellington college and cambridge university and in 1921 went on a cambridge university expedition to jan mayen lead by james mann wordie . two years later he went on another cambridge university expedition , this time to brazil . late in his life he also had an unexpected but important role in discovering the true story of anna leonowens , the 19th century woman whose memoirs inspired a number of dramatic and fictional works , most notably the musical '' the king and i '' . leonowens presented her own account as factual and it was accepted in the west as such , despite being strongly disputed in thailand . in the 1970s , when bristowe , a regular visitor to the far east in search of spiders , was researching a biography of leonowen 's son , louis t. leonowens , he discovered and published evidence that significant parts of the tale were in fact fictional .
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- known for is spiders discovering the true story of anna leonowens- death date is 11 january 1979- field is arachnologist- birth date is 1 september 1901- name is william syer bristowe- citizenship is british- alma mater is wellington college cambridge university