[3][4][5] Mensa was founded by Berrill and Lancelot Ware at Lincoln College, Oxford, England on 1 October 1946.
Lance Ware had the initial idea for the society, but Berrill founded Mensa in the usual sense: he supplied the start-up cash, wrote some initial idiosyncratic pamphlets and became Mensa's first Secretary.
Then Berrill proposed that the motion be amended to exclude "green people with yellow stripes" instead.
[8] Berrill died a few years later, having recruited in total around 400 people by self-administered IQ tests.
His father moved to Sydney in the 1870s and became an importer/exporter who was a frequent distributor of British books and periodicals abroad.
Roland served in the Royal Artillery in the First World War; His elder brother, Lieut.