Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
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The Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a chair at University College London, endowed (shortly after the Jodrell Chair of Physiology) by TJ Phillips Jodrell in 1874.
UCL was the first university in England to have a Chair of Zoology, and the first holder was Robert Edmond Grant after which the post received the Jodrell endowment.[1] Until 1948, the professor of Zoology was also Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology, after this point the two roles were separated. [2]
Jodrell was a 'wealthy eccentric' who went insane before his gift could be completed, requiring the 'Masters in Lunacy' to confirm the donation.[1]
Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
1827-1874 Robert Edmond Grant
Jodrell Professors of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
- 1874-1889 Sir Ray Lankester
- 1889-1899 Raphael Weldon
- 1899-1906 Edward Alfred Minchin
- 1906-21 James Peter Hill
- 1921-51 D. M. S. Watson
- 1951-62 Sir Peter Medawar
- 1962-70 Michael Abercrombie
- 1970-91 Avrion Mitchison
- 1994-98 Jeff Williams
- 2019-present Max J Telford