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THE REV. DR. GEORGE HERBERT CABPENTER died at Guildford, Surrey, on January 22, at the age of seventy-three years. Born at Peckham in 1865, he was the son of George Carpenter and Phoebe Hooper. His early education was private; later he carried on his studies at King's College, London, and at the Royal College of Science, Dublin. After a period as clerk in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, he became, in 1888, assistant naturalist at the Dublin Museum. He gave up this post in 1904 on being appointed professor of zoology at the Royal College of Science (Dublin), where he stayed until 1922. On leaving Ireland he became keeper of the Manchester Museum (1923–34). A few years after his return to England he became a deacon of the Church and a priest a year later. He was honorary curate at Christ Church, West Didsbury, from 1926 until 1934 and was transferred to a similar position at St. Augustine's, Broxbourne, from 1935 until 1937. He was editor of the Irish Naturalist for thirty years, secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland from 1911 until 1919 and afterwards secretary of the Royal Irish Academy.
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I., A. Dr. G. H. Carpenter. Nature 143, 462 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143462b0
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