Professor Sir Charles Maurice Yonge

Charles Maurice Yonge (known as Maurice) was born in Yorkshire in 1899 and was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. Following his time in the army between 1917-1918, Yonge read history at Oxford. However, this was only for a short period as he transferred to the University of Edinburgh in 1919 where he enrolled as a Baxter Natural Science Scholar.

In 1925, Yonge became an Assistant Naturalist for the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. His work concentrated on the feeding and digestion of oysters, and led to Yonge embarking on a lifetime of study into a group of bivalves. Much of his work is evident in his book Oysters which was published in 1960.

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