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L. P. W. Renouf

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Louis Percy Watt Renouf FRSE MRIA (1887–1968) was a 20th century British biologist working in Ireland. As an author Renouf specialised in texts aimed at children.

Life

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He was born on 11 December 1887 in (or near) Birmingham. He was given a strict Roman Catholic education at Erdington Abbey then attended King Edward VII Grammar School in Birmingham. He then studied Biology at Cambridge University graduating MA in 1914 then obtaining a Diploma in Agriculture.

In 1922 he was appointed Professor of Zoology at University College, Cork. In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir John Graham Kerr, James Chumley, Robert Arnot Staig and James Hartley Ashworth.[1]

He died at St Philomena's at Tivoli in Cork in Eire on 20 January 1968.

Publications

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  • The Stamp Zoo (1930)
  • Animal Life on the Seashore (1930)
  • Fundamentals of Biology (1932 reprinted 1948) with J W Stork
  • Junior Biology (1933) with J W Stork
  • Plant and Animal Ecology (1948) with J W Stork
  • Evolution (1953)

Family

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In 1914 he married Mary Wareing.

References

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  1. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2018.