George Leslie Purser

George Leslie Purser FRSE (23 December 1891–20 July 1967) was a 20th-century English zoologist and embryologist.

He was born in the Moseley district of Birmingham on 23 December 1891 the son of Harriet Annie Purser (1862-1952) and her husband, George Jesse Purser (1853-1927).

[1] He studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge graduating with an MA in 1915.

In 1920 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He died on 20 July 1967 and is buried with his parents in Felixstowe Municipal Cemetery.