Professor Sir Patrick Bateson

Sir Patrick Bateson was Professor of Ethology, the biological study of behaviour, at the University of Cambridge (1984-2005). He was Provost (Head) of King's College, Cambridge (1988 to 2003). He was formerly Director of the Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge and later Head of the Department of Zoology. In 2004 he was elected President of the Zoological Society of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1983 and was its Biological Secretary and Vice-President from 1998 to 2003. He was knighted in 2003. He is a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society and an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary College London and holds an Honorary Doctorate of St Andrews University.