| Activity | Education: Goole Grammar School 1949-1957, Hull University BSc in geology 1960, PhD 1963. Specialised in zooplankton which thrived 488 to 416 million years ago. Held appointments at University College London, Cambridge University, the Natural History Museum and Trinity College Dublin. Successively lecturer, reader, professor and Life Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Won the Geological Society's Lyell Medal in 1997. Cambridge Emeritus Professor in Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy. Curator of Sedgwick Museum. Retired from full-time teaching 2005. Founded member of Pike Angling Club of Great Britain; former President of the Pike Society. |