| Authorised form of name | Miall; Louis Compton (1842 - 1921); palaeontologist, biologist, and educator |
| Other forms of name | L.C.M |
| Dates | 1842 - 1921 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Brunswick Place, Bradford West End, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 12 September 1842 |
| Place of death | Leeds, Yorkshire, West Riding, England |
| Date of death | 21/02/1921 |
| Occupation | Paleontologist and educator |
| Research field | Biology |
| Geology |
| Entomology |
| Activity | Education: Under the direction of his father, kept a small day-school, teaching younger students (1857); studied zoology and geology independently (1857); joined a botanical society at Todmorden.
Career: Curator of the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (1871-1892); professor of biology at the Yorkshire College (1876-1907); Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution (1904-1906);
Memberships:
British Association
Entomological Society of London (Council 1903 and 1908), later a special life Fellow (1916) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1892 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| Proposer | John Wesley Judd; Henry Baker Tristram; Philip Henry Pye-Smith; Thomas George Bonney; Alexander Henry Green; Archibald Geikie; Robert Etheridge; Peter Martin Duncan |
| Richard Owen; William Hudleston Hudleston; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Harry Govier Seeley; Thomas Pridgin Teale; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Henry Flower; Henry Woodward; William Topley; William Boyd Dawkins |
| William Crawford Williamson; Arthur Milnes Marshall; Edward Burnet Tylor; Thomas Clifford Allbutt; George John Romanes; Edward Hull; William Turner; Philip Herbert Carpenter |
| Relationships | Parents: James Goodeve Miall and Elizabeth Symonds (Mackenzie) Miall
Grandfather: Moses Miall
Spouse: Emily (née Pearce) Miall (July 1870), (d 1918)
Children: Winifred (Miall) Wager; Stephen Miall; Frances Margaret Miall; Lawrence Miall; Rowland Miall
Son in law: Harold William Taylor (FRS 1904) |
| Published works | RCN 11337 |
| General context | Known as the first Professor of Biology at the University of Leeds and remembered for his 1874 dissection of an elephant that had been part of a crcus visiting Leeds.
Made contributions in geology, zoology, scientific history, and education. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Louis Compton Miall F.R.S. (1842 - 1921) [URL: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miall-51; last accessed: 27/02/2024]; Obituary Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S [URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/107017a0, last accessed: 27/02/2024]
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1922 vol 93 pp x-xix signed by W W
References:
R A Baker and R A Bayliss, 'Louis Compton Miall, FRS: Scientist and Educator, 1842-1921' in NR 1982-83 vol 37 pp 201-234 |
| Royal Society code | NA7997 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1892/19 | Miall, Louis Compton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/6/1028 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 6 October 1892 |
| NLB/40/749 | Copy letter from Alfred George Hastings White to Professor L [Louis] C [Compton] Miall FRS | 3 August 1909 |
| MC/26/166 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, 21 Norton Way, N, Letchworth, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 31 May 1911 |
| NLB/17/17 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 4 July 1898 |
| RR/15/125 | Referee's report by Louis Compton Miall, on a paper 'Certain laws of variation' by H M Vernon | 21 March 1900 |
| NLB/19/309 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 2 August 1899 |
| NLB/20/319 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Louis Compton Miall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 March 1900 |
| NLB/20/305 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Adam Sedgwick, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 March 1900 |
| NLB/36/454 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 31 October 1907 |
| NLB/43/485 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Louis Compton Miall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 January 1911 |
| NLB/51/517 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor Louis Compton Miall FRS | 15 April 1915 |
| NLB/55/379 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Louis Compton] Miall, FRS | 14 March 1918 |
| RR/15/49 | Letter from Louis Compton Miall, on a paper 'Variation' by James Cossar Ewart to William Abbott Herdman | 5 May 1900 |
| NLB/57/670 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 9 January 1920 |
| NLB/61/681 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Harold William Taylor] Wager Esquire, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS | 5 October 1921 |
| NLB/55/591 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Professor Louie Compton] Miall, FRS | 21 June 1918 |
| NLB/62/453 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Harold William Taylor] Wager Esquire, Chairman of the Botany Committee and FRS | 16 February 1922 |
| NLB/9/991 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 13 August 1894 |
| RR/15/48 | Referee's report by Louis Compton Miall, on a paper 'Variation' by James Cossar Ewart | 26 March 1900 |
| MC/23/297 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, Norton Way, Letchworth, to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 15 June 1908 |
| MC/19/610 | Letter from Louis Compton Miall, 1 Richmond Mount, Headingley, Leeds, to the Royal Society | 15 January 1904 |
| MC/20/175 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, The University, Leeds, to the Secetaries of the Royal Society | 28 November 1905 |
| NLB/31/927 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Louis Compton Miall, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 December 1905 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/20 | Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1905 |
| MC/30/128 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, 21 Norton Way N, Letchworth, to The Assistant Secretary, [Royal Society] | 16 February 1915 |
| MC/32/184 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, 21 Norton Way N, Letchworth, to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 20 March 1917 |
| MC/32/185 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, 21 Norton Way N, Letchworth, to Robert Harrison, [Royal Society] | 7 July 1917 |
| MC/32/186 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, Norton Way N, Letchworth, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society | 11 July 1917 |
| MC/33/118 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, to Robert Harrison, [Royal Society] | 13 March 1918 |
| MC/33/119 | Letter from [Louis Compton] Miall, Norton Way N, Letchworth, to Robert Harrison, [Royal Society] | 24 June 1918 |