Thom's Irish Who's Who/Carpenter, George Herbert

CARPENTER, George Herbert, D.Sc, M.R.I. A., Professor of Zoology in the Royal Coll. of Science for Ireland since 1904; Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy since 1920; b. 1865; son of George Carpenter, Peckham, London. Educ.: Private school: King's College, Lond.; R. Coll. Science, Dubl.; B.Sc. (Lond.), 1890: M.Sc. and D.Sc. (Q. Univ., Belfast), 1913 and 1918; m. 1891 to Emma, daughter of Charles Eason, Dublin. Engineer's draughtsman, 1881-4; on staff of Science Library, S. Kensington, London, 1884-8; Assistant Naturalist in Nat. Museum, Dublin, 1888-1904. Joint editor of the "Irish Naturalist" since its foundation in 1892. Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, 1910-19. Member of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland. Hon. Lay Secretary of the Hibernian Church Missionary Society since 1920. Pubns.: Insects—their Structure and Life, 1899 (in Russian, 1903): The Life Story of Insects, 1913 (in Spanish, 1922); insect Transformation, 1921; numerous zoological papers in Proc. R. Irish Acad., R. Dublin Soc, Linn. Soc, Quart. Journ. Micr. Science, etc. Recns.: cycling and hill- walking. Res.: 51 Grosvenor Road, Rathmines, Dublin.