William Brunsdon Yapp OBE (8 February 1909[contradictory]–12 March 1990) was an English zoologist and author who worked as a senior lecturer in zoology at the University of Birmingham.
Yapp, the only son of William Henry and Margaret Mary,[1] was born in Bristol where his father had moved to from Hereford so as to provide education to his daughters.
After studies at Bristol Grammar School, Yapp went to Downing College, Cambridge where he went by the nickname of Brunny’ to friends and Brunsdon generally.
He published several well-known textbooks in zoology including An Introduction to Animal Physiology 1939, Vertebrates 1965 and had very strong views on how biology should be taught.
[10] Yapp married Bridget Joan Spedding (their engagement was announced in April 1940[1]) and she died in Pendyffryn Hall Sanatorium, Penmaenmawr, on 4 September 1945.