Background
ELTON, Charles was born on March 29, 1900 in Manchester. Son of late Oliver Elton and Letitia Maynard MacColl.
ELTON, Charles was born on March 29, 1900 in Manchester. Son of late Oliver Elton and Letitia Maynard MacColl.
Liverpool College, and New College, Oxford.
Director Bureau of Animal Population, Department, of Zoological Field Studies, Oxford University 1932-1967. Reader in Animal Ecology, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College 1936-1967. Honorary Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford since 1967.
Nature Conservancy 1949-1956, Scientific Policy Committee until 1967. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences 1968.
Married 1st Rose Montague in 1928, no c. Married 2nd Edith J. Scovell in 1937, one son one daughter.