Owain Richards

Owain Westmacott Richards FRS (31 December 1901 – 10 November 1984) was a British entomologist and ecologist who worked as Professor of Zoology and Applied Entomology, Imperial College, London, based at Silwood Park, and an editor of the Journal of Animal Ecology.

Richards was born in Croydon, the second son of the town medical officer Harold Meredith and Mary Cecilia née Todd.

He travelled on collection trips to Guyana with his younger brother Paul W. Richards.

[2][3] Among his key activities were revisions made along with Richard Gareth Davies to the Textbook of Entomology by Augustus Daniel Imms.

Richard's mother was devoutly Anglican while his father was Welsh Baptist but as a child he did not attend church and in later life was an agnostic.