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CHARLES TATE REGAN, formerly director of the British Museum (Natural History), who died on January 12, was born at Sherborne in February 1878 and was educated at Derby School and Queens' College, Cambridge. The choice of Derby was probably influenced by the fact that his parents were professional musicians, for the head-master at that time was J. R. Sterndale-Bennett, a son of the composer, and music took a serious place in the life of the School. The appreciation of great music thus inherited and cultivated gave Tate Regan great pleasure in later years. It was L. J. Fuller, the science master at Derby, who first suggested a career at the Natural History Museum to the boy, among whose interests natural history was already prominent, and Tate Regan stayed a fourth year at Cambridge to wait for a vacancy to occur at South Kensington. At Cambridge he studied under Sedgwick, and he worked and played with equal zest. He played both Association and Rugby football, and was a good sprinter, hurdler and jumper. At this time he was uncertain whether to specialize in plants or animals, but of one thing he was sure, that his interest would be in the structure of living organisms, and its bearing on their relationships and evolution.
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TREWAVAS, E. Dr. C. Tate Regan, F.R.S. Nature 151, 188–189 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151188a0
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