Background
ANSORGE, William John was born on April 6, 1850 in Chapra, Bengal. Son of late G. P. Ansorge, Church Missionary Society, Incumbent of St. Paul’s Church, Port Louis, Mauritius.
ANSORGE, William John was born on April 6, 1850 in Chapra, Bengal. Son of late G. P. Ansorge, Church Missionary Society, Incumbent of St. Paul’s Church, Port Louis, Mauritius.
Studied at Royal College, Mauritius. Pembroke College, Cambridge. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.
Jeaffreson Exhibitioner. Master of Arts (Of Cambridge University). Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (London).
Doctor of Laws.
Professor Royal College, Mauritius, 1872-1880. Senior Professor, 1880-1886. Late District Medical Officer in Uganda and in S. Nigeria.
Medal with clasp, Uganda, 1897-1898. Medal with clasp, Aro, 1901-1902. Discoverer of over 80 new African vertebrates and over 100 new African invertebrates.
The descriptions appeared in Proceedings of Zoological Society of London, Bulletins of the British Ornithologists’ Club, Under the African Sun, Novitates Zoologies, The Entomologist, Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Honourable.
Member Royal College of Surgeons (Engl.). Fellow of the Zoological Society.
Spouse 1881, Mary Matilda, y.daughter of late G. E. Ely, M.D., Edinburgh.