David Owen Morgan
David Owen Morgan FRSE (19 August 1893 – 17 November 1959) was a British zoologist who studied parasites. He was born in Bronant, near Aberystwyth in Wales, and went to Tregaron County School. He served in the Royal Signal Corps during World War I and was wounded. After the war he studied zoology at University College of Wales, earning a BSc in 1923.
He then joined Robert Thomson Leiper’s team at the Institute of Agricultural Parasitology in London, later moving to Winches Farm in St Albans. In 1924 he studied potato root eelworm in Lincolnshire. From 1926 he focused on nematodes in domestic animals such as sheep and goats. In 1933 he moved to Edinburgh to teach Helminthology at the Dick Vet College. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1936.
In 1952 he left Edinburgh to teach Animal Pathology and Parasitology at Cambridge Veterinary School. He died suddenly in Cambridge on 17 November 1959. He was married with two daughters.
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