Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

The Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a chair at University College London, endowed (shortly after the Jodrell Chair of Physiology) by TJ Phillips Jodrell in 1874.

UCL was the first university in England to have a Chair of Zoology, and the first holder was Robert Edmond Grant after which the post received the Jodrell endowment.^[1] Until 1948, the professor of Zoology was also Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology, after this point the two roles were separated. ^[2]

Jodrell was a 'wealthy eccentric' who went insane before his gift could be completed, requiring the 'Masters in Lunacy' to confirm the donation.^[1]

1827-1874 Robert Edmond Grant

• 1874-1889 Sir Ray Lankester
• 1889-1899 Raphael Weldon
• 1899-1906 Edward Alfred Minchin
• 1906-21 James Peter Hill
• 1921-51 D. M. S. Watson
• 1951-62 Sir Peter Medawar
• 1962-70 Michael Abercrombie
• 1970-91 Avrion Mitchison
• 1994-98 Jeff Williams
• 2019-present Max J Telford