Derek Bryceson
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Derek Bryceson, a former parks director and member of Tanzania's national assembly. [1] in 1971 was Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives. [2] Around 1973 he became director of national parks.
In 1975, the year after her divorce, Jane Goodall "married Derek Bryceson. According to People, Bryceson was a former English airman who had helped Tanzania gain independence from Britain. To Goodall, he was something of a kindred spirit. He, too, had been "inexorably drawn" to the African continent. Their union lasted until 1980, when Bryceson tragically died of cancer." [3]
