Professor Wilfred Eade Agar

Professor of zoology
Born
27 April 1882, Wimbledon (Surrey), England
Died
14 July 1951, Kew, Victoria
Sex
Male
Father
Edward Larpent Agar (solicitor)
Mother
Agnes Henty
Married Elizabeth MacDonald

Degrees

1922Doctor of ScienceThe University of Melbourne

Career

  • Cantab (BA 1903, MA 1907), DSc Glas c1919.
  • FRS 1921.
  • Zoologist.
  • Fellow of King's Coll, Cantab 1907-13.
  • Prof of Zoology, UMelb 1919-47.
  • OBE 1939, CBE 1948.

Military service

  • First World War: Captain British Army.

Sources

Notes

Melb degree awarded "by special grace".
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