Philip Sheppard

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Professor Philip MacDonald Sheppard, F.R.S. (27 July 1921–17 October 1976) was a British geneticist and lepidopterist.

He was born on 27 July 1921 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and attended Marlborough College from 1935 to 1939.

1940 to 1945 - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (prisoner-of-war from 1942 to 1945).

1946 to 1948 - Studied Zoology at Worcester College, Oxford University.

1956 to 1959 - Lecturer at Liverpool University

1959 to 1962 - Reader at Liverpool University

1963 to 1976 - Professor of genetics at Liverpool University

18 March 1965 - FRS

1975 - Linnean Medal (Gold Medal) for Zoology from the Linnean Society of London

Philip Sheppard made advances in population genetics.

Cyril Clarke answered an advert in an insect magazine for swallowtail butterfly pupa that had been placed by Philip Sheppard. They met and began working together in their common interest of lepidoptery. They also worked on Rh disease.

In 1961 Philip Sheppard started a colony of scarlet tiger moths at the Wirral Way, West Kirby, Merseyside, which were rediscovered in 1988 by Cyril Clarke, who continued research in his retirement. Changes in the moth population were studied.

Philip Sheppard married Patricia Beatrice Lee in 1948. They had three sons. He died of acute leukemia 17 October 1976.

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