He is best known as a researcher in marine biology who helped to establish Lough Hyne as a field station,[1][2] and is one of the lead characters in Reflections on a Summer Sea,[3] a history of this facility.
[4] He also authored and edited a number of other books on biology and endocrinology including The Glands Inside Us and Population Control by Social Behaviour.
[6] John Ebling graduated in Zoology in 1940 at the University of Bristol, where his interest in marine biology was stimulated by Sir Maurice Yonge.
Whilst studying for a PhD also at Bristol, his interest in Endocrinology was stimulated by Dr Max Reiss at the Burden Neurological Institute.
[7] John Ebling married Erika Graetzer (born 17 May 1925) on 5 September 1948 at St Mary Redcliffe Bristol.