Wynfrid Duckworth

Wynfrid Lawrence Henry Duckworth (5 June 1870 – 14 February 1956) was a British anatomist, and former Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

The Duckworth Laboratory (Department of Biological Anthropology) at Cambridge University is named after him.

He began a lifelong college fellowship in 1893, and during the Second World War served as Master.

He found an ancient skeleton in Cave S.[1] Duckworth taught physical anthropology and anatomy during various periods, interrupted by a term on the General Medical Council and a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

[2] Duckworth performed anthropological and anatomical research for much of his career, and accumulated a collection that supplied both the Cambridge anatomy school museum and the new Duckworth Laboratory in the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.