Denis Owen

Denis Frank Owen (4 April 1931 – 3 October 1996) was a British ecologist, naturalist, author, broadcaster and teacher.He was a student at Roan Grammar School in Greenwich, which he left when he was 16, but eventually he graduated from the University of Oxford.Upon leaving Uganda in 1966, at the age of 35, he took up the Chair of Zoology at Fourah Bay College, later to become the University of Sierra Leone.During this period Owen also gave radio broadcasts on Spanish natural history for the BBC World Service (with John Burton) as well as writing a series called "What's in a Name?[1] The ichneumonid wasp genus Owenus is named after Denis Owen, as is the West African hawkmoth Phylloxiphia oweni.
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