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Robert Cyril Layton Perkins

1866 - 1955

Born

15 November 1866

Badminton, Gloucestershire, England

Died

29/09/1955

Hi home, Wotton, Newton Road, Bovey Tracey, England

Nationality
British
Gender
Male
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
13/05/1920
Age at the time of election for Royal Society fellowship
54
Occupation
Entomologist
Relationships
Parents: Reverend Charles Mathew Perkins and Agnes Martha Beach, daughter of the Reverend Percy Thomas. Spouse: 1) (1901) Zoë Lucy Sherrard Alatau (d. 1940), daughter of A. T. Atkinson, superintendent of public schools in the Hawaiian Islands, and granddaughter of Thomas Witlam Atkinson; 2) (1942) Clara M. J. Senior (née Dowse), she died in 1949. Children: Four sons, one of whom died in infancy. His son John Frederick Perkins (1910-1983) was a hymnopterist.