to 1956 and 1969 to 1970 and as President from 1970 to 1973. Yonge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1946 and won its Darwin Medal in 1968. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1967. Yonge received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1971. Family In 1927 Yonge married Dr Martha "Mattie" Lennox, a fellow student he had met during their days at Edinburgh, where she was reading medicine. They had two children, Elspeth (born 1931) and Robin (born 1934). Mattie Lennox Yonge died in 1945. In 1955, Yonge became father-in-law of the physicist Bruno Touschek due to Elspeth's marriage. Sir Maurice Yonge died in 1986. He was survived by his second wife, Phyllis Fraser, whom he married in 1954. They had a son, Christopher (born 1955). Legacy Yonge's extensive private marine biology library was sold to the Australian Institute of Marine Science in 1982. It is now housed at James Cook University Library. A reef off the northern coast of Queensland was also named for him. A sculpture of Sir Maurice Yonge was created by Jason deCaires Taylor for the Museum of Underwater Art as part of the Ocean Sentinels above the surface exhibition in 2022 References 1899 births 1986 deaths People from the City of Wakefield People educated at Silcoates School Alumni of the University of Edinburgh College of Science and Engineering Academics of the University of Bristol Academics of the University of Glasgow Knights Bachelor English knights English marine biologists 20th-century British zoologists Marine zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Great Barrier Reef Green Howards officers British Army personnel of World War I Commanders of the Order of the British Empire New Naturalist writers