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Theodore Thomson Flynn MBE FLS FZS FRS MRIA (11 October 1883 – 23 October 1968) was an Australian zoologist and marine biologist and a professor in both Tasmania and the United Kingdom. He was the father of the actor Errol Flynn.
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- Errol Flynn
- 11 October 1883, Coraki, New South Wales, Australia
- 23 October 1968 (aged 85), Liss, Hampshire, England
Theodore Thomson Flynn was one of the signatories to this illuminated address presented to Leonard Rodway by the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, congratulating him on being appointed a Companion of St Michael and St George in 1917 and expressing the club’s gratitude for his work and support.
Theodore Thomson Flynn (1883-1968), zoologist, and Errol Leslie Flynn (1909-1959), film actor, were father and son. Theodore was born on 11 October 1883 at Coraki, New South Wales, son of John Thompson Flynn, cordial manufacturer, and his wife Jessie, née Thomson.
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8 lug 1990 · Theodore Thomson Flynn Tasmania's first Professor of Biology. Professor of Biology. Theo Flynn was tall, slim, broad shouldered and blue-eyed; softly spoken, charming and witty. He was very industrious but also gregarious and friendly, enjoying dancing and tennis, as well as his academic interests.
In April 1909, Theodore Thomson Flynn arrived in Tasmania to become the first lecturer in the newly established department in biology at the University of Tasmania. The University itself was then nineteen years old, having been established in June 1890.
20 ott 1993 · Zoologist. Summary. Theodore Flynn was appointed the first lecturer in biology at the University of Tasmania (1909) and from 1911 was Professor of Biology. Although his early interest was marsupials, he later developed an interest in marine biology.
Flynn is considered to be one of the pioneers of research into the reproductive biology of Tasmanian marsupials and monotremes. A complete Thylacine skeleton collected by Flynn is in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection. Professor Flynn's first paper was on the anatomy of the Tasmanian Devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii) in 1910.
