Louis Compton Miall

Louis Compton MIall FRS (12 September 1842, Bradford – 21 February 1921, Leeds) was an English palaeontologist, biologist and academic.

In 1857 Miall, under the direction of his father, kept a small day-school, teaching younger students. He independently studied zoology and geology, joined a botanical society at Todmorden, and published papers in various journals.[1]

From 1871 to 1892 he was curator of the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. From 1876 to 1907 he was professor of biology at the Yorkshire College, which became the University of Leeds in 1904. In 1892 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). From 1904 to 1906 he was Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. At the annual meetings of the British Association he presided over the zoological section in 1897 and the education section in 1908.[1]

He married in 1870[1] and his wife died in 1918. There were three children from the marriage.[2]