Garrod, Alfred Henry

Alfred Henry Garrod was born in London in 1846. He was the eldest child of Sir Alfred Barring Garrod, an eminent physician of the time. He studied medicine at Kings College London and was elected to St John's College, Cambridge in 1870. He started work as the prosector/anatomist at ZSL in 1871 and held this position until his death in 1879. He was especially interested in the anatomy of birds.

'Centenary History of the Zoological Society of London', by Peter Chalmers Mitchell, 1929
ODNB, Garrod, Alfred Henry