Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott DSC FMA (24 October 1908 – 25 November 1991) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Science Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in London, England.
He graduated from the RCS in 1935 with a first class degree and then worked briefly as an assistant master at Eton (1935–36).
Morrison-Scott was appointed as an Assistant Keeper (2nd class) in Department of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) on 1 October 1936.
[2] During World War II, he was a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and commanded a flotilla of tank landing craft during D-Day in Normandy, earning the Distinguished Service Cross (DCS).
[4] Then from 1960 he was Director of the British Museum (Natural History) until his retirement on 30 November 1968.