Background
Winckworth was born in Brighton in 1884 and attended Epsom College.
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Ronald Winckworth
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Jesus College.
Career
He then taught in Weymouth (1902), Eastbourne (1903–1905) and at Saint Bees School (1905–1906) before winning an open exhibition to Jesus College, Oxford. He then taught at Radley College and Wellington College (1911) and Brighton Technical School (1912–1914). He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the First World War, reaching the rank of paymaster lieutenant, before working at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Plymouth.
After teaching navigation at Pangbourne Nautical College, he worked for the Royal Society on publications, later becoming librarian, assistant secretary (1932–1937) and assistant editor (1937–1944).
After retiring in 1944, he carried out occasional work as consultant editors His paper on British marine mollusca, his presidential address, was the most cited of his many writings, which were mainly on British and Indian mollusca.
He was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society and Royal Geographical Society. He died on 6 September 1950.
Membership
He was a member of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1913 onwards, serving as President (1930–1931). He became a member of the Malacological Society of London in 1919, later becoming its editor, and serving as President (1939–1942). He was a member of the Linnean Society from 1935 onwards, serving on the council from 1943 and as Vice President (1945–1947).
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