About L. P. W. Renouf
Lived 1887 – 1968 (aged 80–81). L. P. W. Renouf was a biologist.
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
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.
He died at St Philomena's at Tivoli in Cork in Eire on 20 January 1968.
Publications
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
In 1914 he married Mary Wareing.
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Who was L. P. W. Renouf?
British biologist (1887-1968)
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L. P. W. Renouf was born in 1887.
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L. P. W. Renouf died on 20 January 1968.
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L. P. W. Renouf was a biologist.
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