Conwy Lloyd Morgan, 1852-1936

Abstract

Conwy Lloyd Morgan was born in London on 6 February, 1852, the second son of J. A. Morgan , a solicitor. He died at Hastings on 6 March , 1936. He received his early education at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, where he came under the influence of a distinguished classical scholar,* Dr. Merriman . From school he went to the Royal School of Mines with a view to becoming an engineer. Here he was Duke of Cornwall Scholar, Murchisonand dela Beche Medallist, finally taking his diplomain mining and metallurgy .It was here, therefore, that he laid the sound foundations of his know ledge of geology. He was not, however, destined to become either an engineer or a pure geologist. At the School of Mines he had come into contact with T. H. Huxley, who was doubtless responsible for awakening in him an interest in biology. He read Darwin’s Voyage of a Naturalist, and himself spent several months in a tour through North America and Brazil. On his return he made an intensive study of biology under Huxley at South Kensington, where he had Bastian, already an ardent exponent of abiogenesis, as a fellow student.