Lancelot Hogben
| Lancelot Thomas Hogben | |
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| Born |
9 December 1895 Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 22 August 1975 (aged 79) Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | experimental zoologist, medical statistician |
Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRSFRSE (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenics movement in the middle of his career, and popularised books on science, mathematics and language in his later career.
Hogben was born and raised in Southsea near Portsmouth in Hampshire. His parents were Plymouth Brethren; he broke young from the family religion. He attended Tottenham County School in London, his family having moved to Stoke Newington, where his mother had grown up, in 1907, and then as a medical student studied physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He took his degree in 1915, graduating with an Ordinary degree. He had acquired socialist convictions, changing the name of the university's Fabian Society to Socialist Society and went on to become an active member of the Independent Labour Party. Later in life he preferred to describe himself as 'a scientific humanist'.
In the First World War he was a pacifist and was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in 1916 at Wormwood Scrubs; this was after six months working with the Red Cross in France, and his deliberate return to Cambridge. His health collapsed and he was released in 1917. Hogben married in 1918 the mathematician, statistician, and feminist Enid Charles, with whom he had two sons and two daughters.
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