Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, CBE, FRS[1] FRSE (9 December 1899[2] – 17 March 1986) was an English marine zoologist.
[1] He was a Baxter Natural Science Scholar while at Edinburgh, working as an Assistant Naturalist with the Marine Biological Association, mainly at Plymouth.
He took his D.Sc in 1927,[6] for his research into oysters, and then moved to Cambridge in 1927 as a Balfour student, where he was invited to join and lead the Great Barrier Reef Expedition of 1928–1929.
His proposers were Francis Balfour-Browne, James Ritchie, Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and Alexander Charles Stephen.
[11] In 1927 Yonge married Dr Martha "Mattie" Lennox, a fellow student he had met during their days at Edinburgh, where she was reading medicine.
[13][14] A sculpture of Sir Maurice Yonge was created by Jason deCaires Taylor for the Museum of Underwater Art as part of the Ocean Sentinels above the surface exhibition in 2022 [15]