Author:
Garnham Percy Cyril Claude
Abstract
Robert Thomson Leiper was described by the late Sir Philip Manson-Bahr in 1956 as the world’s foremost helminthologist; this had already been his reputation for practically half a century; at the age of 80 he was referred to as the ‘Father of helminthology of the British Commonwealth’ by Thomas W. A. Cameron, and by others as the ‘Father of modern helminthology’ Leiper was born in Witch Road, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, on 17 April 1881, the eldest of three children of John and Jessie Leiper. His mother’s maiden name was Aird and his maternal grandmother’s Boyd. The family had been settled in the town of Kilmarnock for three generations, but earlier had been farmers in the neighbouring county of Lanarkshire. His great-great-grandfather farmed Stonyhill in the parish of Avondale and his great-grandfather the farm, Drumboy. Some of this land is still in the possession of the family, and Robert Leiper himself bought the original farm, though in 1951 he had to sell it.
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