George Stuart Carter

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Dr George Stuart Carter FRSE FLS FZS (1893-1969) was a leading British zoologist and zoological author.

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Life

He was born on 15 September 1893, the son of Rev G C Carter and Hilda E Keane. [1]

He studied at Marlborough College and then was awarded a place at Cambridge University, where he continued also at postgraduate level, gaining a PhD in Zoology. His studies were interrupted by the First World War: he served in the 6th Leicestershire Regiment from 1914-1917 and then as a Sound Ranger in the Royal Engineers 1917 to 1919.

After the war he obtained a post at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples where he worked 1922 to 1923 before receiving a post as a lecturer in Zoology at Glasgow University. He stayed at Glasgow until 1930, then receiving a Fellowship from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, lecturing there from 1938 until retiral in 1960 . [2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925. He died in Cambridge on 2 December 1969.

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References

  1. C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN   090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  2. C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN   090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  3. "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1957". 1958.