14 Facts About Alexander Carr-Saunders

Alexander Carr-Saunders was Director of the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1957.

Alexander Carr-Saunders was educated at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire.

Alexander Carr-Saunders then studied biology at Magdalen College, specialising in zoology.

Alexander Carr-Saunders graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908.

Alexander Carr-Saunders remained a year at the University of Oxford as a demonstrator in comparative anatomy.

Alexander Carr-Saunders left in 1910 to join the University College London where he studied biometrics under Karl Pearson, a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics.

Alexander Carr-Saunders became the secretary of the Eugenics Education Society and lived at Toynbee Hall.

Alexander Carr-Saunders spent the first year of the war in France on the Western Front.

Alexander Carr-Saunders was then posted to a ration depot at Suez, Egypt, due to the high standard of his French.

Alexander Carr-Saunders was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 12 December 1914, and to temporary captain on 27 January 1918.

Alexander Carr-Saunders participated in the 1921 Oxford University Spitsbergen expedition, one of the first Oxford Expeditions to Spitsbergen in the Arctic as main scientists, together with Julian Huxley.

Alexander Carr-Saunders served as President of the Geographical Association during 1947.

Alexander Carr-Saunders was one of the mentors of the animal ecologist Charles Elton, greatly influencing Elton's approach toward animal ecology as a "sociology and economy of animals".

Alexander Carr-Saunders was married and lived at a 16th-century mansion, Water Eaton, Oxfordshire, age 52, when his son Nicholas Saunders was born in 1938.