Robert Wynne Owen (1924-1985) and his parasitological collections at Leeds: 1. Microscope slides and fish parasites

摘要

Wynne, as he was affectionately called, died on 30 October 1985 on the campus of the University of Leeds on his way to give a lecture to a class of first year students (Jennings, 1985, 1986). He was born in Southampton in 1924 and his father was ChiefEngineer on the Aquitania. The family later moved to Motherwell, to help with the business of a relative based there, and Wynne went to Hamilton Academy. When Wynne was 15 his family moved to Aberystwyth, medical advice suggesting that his father shouldbe by the sea (Gwynneth Owen, pers. comm.). Wynne graduated from Aberystwyth University College (part of the University of Wales) in 1944 with an Upper Second Class Honours Degree in Zoology. Following two years at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Pest Infestation Laboratory in Slough, he became a research assistant in the Department of Animal Health in Aberystwyth, obtaining an MSc in 1948 for 'Studies on the helminth parasites of domestic birds in mid and west Wales' followed bya PhD in 1951 for 'Studies on the pre-adult stages of certain nematode parasites of herbivores' (information from David Currie). He married Gwynneth in 1951 and joined the staff of the Zoology Department at the University of Leeds in 1952 as the replacement for Llewellyn Lloyd, who had retired from a Readership in Entomology and Protozoology.