Graham Renshaw

Dr Graham Renshaw FRSE FZS LRCP (1872–1952) was a 20th-century British physician and noted biologist. He was founder and editor of the "Avicultural Magazine" and editor of "Natureland".

Life

Renshaw studied Medicine at the University of Manchester graduating MB.

In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Herbert Bolton, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Kidston and James Hartley Ashworth. He practiced medicine in Manchester and taught Zoology as an extramural subject at the University of Manchester.[1]

He was Vice President of the Manchester Medical Society.[2]

Renshaw published several books and many articles, for instance in The Zoologist.[3]

He died on 13 January 1952.

Publications
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References
  1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  2. Royal Society of Edinburgh Yearbook 1951/2
  3. For instance in The Zoologist of 1901 he published about the quagga ('The True Quagga,' in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 5, issue 716 (February, 1901), p. 41–50).
  4. Renshaw 1904: OCLC 9184315; 2nd ed. 1905 (OCLC 191962400
  5. Renshaw 1905: OCLC 5398544


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