Cicely Kate Bertam (8 July 1912 – 6 July 1999) was a British academic specialising in fish. Part of the 1930s "Cambridge school" of biologists, she contributed to two seminal reports on freshwater fish in eastern Africa

East Africa

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In 1970 Bertram became the second ever President of Lucy Cavendish College

Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

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, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, a position she held until 1979. Bertram served as a Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 in Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

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, eastern England, for twenty years.

Publications

• Ricardo, C.K. n.d. (1939). Report on the Fish and Fisheries of Lake Rukwa in Tanganyika Territory and the Bangweulu Region in Northern Rhodesia. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies.
• Bertram, C.K., Borley, H.J.H. & Trewavas, E. (1942). Report on the Fish and Fisheries of Lake Nyasa. London: Crown Agents for the Colonies. Known as the 1939 Survey.
• C. Kate Bertram (1989). Lucy Cavendish College: A history of the early years.
• Bertram, C. Kate & Janet Trant (1991). Ion Trant. (Ed). Letters from the Swamps. Graffham, Sussex: Dr C.K. Bertram.

• C.K. Ricardo Bertram. "Report on The Fish and Fishery of Lake Tiberias" Haifa: Palestine Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.