J. W. Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship

[1][2] He originally studied Classics as an undergraduate student at Oxford, before switching his attention to Zoology under the guidance of W. F. R. Weldon at University College London.

[1][2] He also travelled to Utrecht University in the Netherlands, to work with Ambrosius Hubrecht, and was exposed to new methods and approaches in embryology.

In 1905, he was appointed the first lecturer in Embryology at the University of Oxford in England, and in 1909 published the first English textbook on experimental embryology [3] in which he summarized recent work in the emerging scientific discipline and criticized neo-vitalist theories of Hans Driesch.

[2] At the outbreak of war in 1914, Jenkinson joined the Oxford Volunteer Training Corps.

[2] In January 1915 he was assigned to the 12th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment and was soon promoted to the rank of captain.