Charles Morley Wenyon

Charles Morley Wenyon (1878–1948) was a distinguished English protozoologist.

Biography Wenyon was born on 24 March 1878 in Liverpool, to Eliza Morley (née Gittins) and Charles Wenyon, a medical doctor and missionary. In 1880, the family moved to Fatshan in China. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath from 1892, and studied zoology and physiology at Yorkshire College, Leeds, and then at University College, London, graduating in 1901. His medical degree (1904) was from Guy's Hospital. and was editor of the Kala-Azar Bulletin. He served as president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1945–47, after being joint honorary secretary from 1920.

He was twice married, with two daughters and a son. He died in London on 24 October 1948, from heart failure.

Honours and prizes Wenyon was awarded many honours and prizes for his work during his lifetime including: The Makdougall-Brisbane Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1927 The Mary Kingsley Medal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1929 Officier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1933 Elected Honorary Member of the Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale in 1934 Honorary Life Member of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1945 The Theobald Smith Gold Medal of the American Academy of Tropical Medicine in 1946 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Honorary Member of the Société de Pathologie Exotique in 1947 Manson Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene