Lancelot Ware

He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946.

[2][1] In June 1980, at the age of 65, he married Joan Francesca Rae Quint (née Gomez), who survived him.

In 1949, Ware was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn and he practised in the Chancery field, specialising in intellectual property, copyright and patent matters.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Institute of Patentees and Inventors, which he chaired for many years.

They therefore agreed to form a High IQ club, with Berrill providing the funding, and it began on 1 October 1946.