Ernest William MacBride FRS (12 December 1866, in Belfast – 17 November 1940, in Alton, Hampshire) was a British/Irish marine biologist,[1] one of the last supporters of Lamarckian evolution.
He then spent a year in Neuwied on the Rhine before returning to continue his education at Queen's College, Belfast, as an external student at London University and at St John's College, Cambridge as an exhibitioner, where he became a Foundation Scholar in 1891 and Fellow in 1893.
He spent a year at the Zoological Station in Naples in 1891/92 engaged in research under Anton Dohrn.
[3] Returning to Cambridge, he became a University Demonstrator in Animal Morphology[4] and a Fellow of St John's in 1893.
MacBride supported Paul Kammerer’s claims to have demonstrated Lamarckian inheritance in the Midwife toad.