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British anatomist

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

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](/source/Liverpool) to Henry Duckworth and Mary Bennett, Duckworth attended [Birkenhead School](/source/Birkenhead_School) and the École Libre des Cordéliers before studying sciences at [Jesus College, Cambridge](/source/Jesus_College%2C_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](/source/St_Bartholomew's_Hospital). in 1910 he was reporting on excavations that he was involved with in [Gibraltar](/source/Gibraltar). He found an ancient skeleton in [Cave S](/source/Cave_S).[1] 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](/source/Anatomical_Society_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland) from 1941 to 1943.[2] Duckworth was the last surviving member of the Anatomical Society to have been elected in the 1800s.[3] Duckworth lived for exactly one year after his wife, dying at a nursing home in Cambridge.[2]

## 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.[2] 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](/source/Marta_Miraz%C3%B3n_Lahr) (2000—2021)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-greatbritain_1-0)** Wynfrid Duckworth (1910). [*The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland*](https://archive.org/stream/journalofroyalan41royauoft/journalofroyalan41royauoft_djvu.txt). Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 355. Retrieved 30 January 2013.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-odnb_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-odnb_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-odnb_2-2) Boyd, JD. ["Duckworth, Wynfrid Laurence Henry"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32913). *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*. Retrieved 15 June 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Golby, F (July 1956). "Dr Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth". *Journal of Anatomy*. **90**: 454–456.

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