{{Short description|British anatomist}} [[File:Entrance to Cave S or Sewell's Cave in Gibraltar, 1912.jpg|thumb|Entrance to Cave S in 1910]] '''Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth''' (5 June 1870 – 14 February 1956) was a British anatomist, and former Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. The Duckworth Laboratory (Department of Biological Anthropology) at Cambridge University is named after him.

==Life== [[File:Specimens found in Cave S by Dr Wynfrid Duckworth – possibly from an exhibition in the Garrison Library (1910).jpg|thumb|left|Specimens found in Cave S by Dr Wynfrid Duckworth – possibly from an exhibition in the Garrison Library in 1910]] Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth was born in [[Liverpool]] to Henry Duckworth and Mary Bennett, Duckworth attended [[Birkenhead School]] and the École Libre des Cordéliers before studying sciences at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]]. He began a lifelong college fellowship in 1893, and during the Second World War served as Master. Duckworth obtained his medical degree in 1905 after training at [[St Bartholomew's Hospital]]. in 1910 he was reporting on excavations that he was involved with in [[Gibraltar]]. He found an ancient skeleton in [[Cave S]].<ref name=greatbritain>{{cite book|author=Wynfrid Duckworth|title=The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|year=1910|publisher=Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofroyalan41royauoft/journalofroyalan41royauoft_djvu.txt|accessdate=30 January 2013|page=355}}</ref> Duckworth taught physical anthropology and anatomy during various periods, interrupted by a term on the General Medical Council and a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He also served as the president of the [[Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland]] from 1941 to 1943.<ref name=odnb>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32913|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|accessdate=15 June 2012|title=Duckworth, Wynfrid Laurence Henry|author=Boyd, JD}}</ref> Duckworth was the last surviving member of the Anatomical Society to have been elected in the 1800s.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Dr Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth|author=Golby, F|journal=Journal of Anatomy|volume=90|pages=454&ndash;456|date=July 1956}}</ref> Duckworth lived for exactly one year after his wife, dying at a nursing home in Cambridge.<ref name=odnb/>

== The Duckworth Collection ==

Duckworth performed anthropological and anatomical research for much of his career, and accumulated a collection that supplied both the Cambridge anatomy school museum and the new Duckworth Laboratory in the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.<ref name=odnb/> The Duckworth Collection is now held in the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, where it is available for academic study ;Directors *[[Marta Mirazón Lahr]] (2000—2021)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{wikisource|works=or}} * {{Gutenberg author | id=42697}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Wynfrid Duckworth}}

{{Authority control}}

{{Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge}} {{University of Cambridge}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duckworth, Wynfrid}} [[Category:1870 births]] [[Category:1956 deaths]] [[Category:British anatomists]] [[Category:Presidents of the Anatomical Society]] [[Category:People educated at Birkenhead School]]