Kennedy, John Stodart, son of James John Stodart Kennedy, consulting engineer, of Hampstead, and Edith Roberts Lammers of Titusville, Pa., USA; b. 19 May 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (G); left July 1929; Univ. Coll. Lond., BSc 1933, MSc 1937, DSc 1956; Univ. of Birmingham, PhD 1938; an entomologist specialising in locusts, mosquitoes and greenfly; Col. Service Sudan 1936-7, Lond. Sch. of Hygiene & Trop. Med. 1937-8, Rockefeller Foundn Albania 1938-9, Middle East, India and East Africa 1942-4; Min. of Supply 1944-5; Agric. Res. Council Cambridge 1946-67; Imp. Coll. Lond. 1967-83; Oxf. Univ. Zoology Dept. 1983-; FRS 1965; Fellow Wolfson Coll. Camb. 1966, UCL 1967, ICL 1982; hon. Prof. of Animal Behaviour Univ. of Lond. 1967; Pres. Roy. Entomological Soc. 1967-9, Wigglesworth Medal 1985; Gold Medal Linnaean Soc. 1984; m. 1st 20 Nov. 1936 Dorothy Violet, d. of Walter Bartholomew of Brighton; 2nd 1950 Claude Jacqueline Bloch Dr-ès-Sc, marine zoologist, d. of Gaston Raphael of Paris; d. 31 Mar. 1993.
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