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Cyril Clarke
Sir Cyril Astley Clarke (22nd Aug 1907–22nd November 2000) was a physician, lepidopterist and geneticist.
He was educated at Wyggestson Grammar School in Leicester, Oundle School, and then at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University.
From 1959 he started running a moth trap near his house in Caldy Common ; this has been continued after his death. He also worked with Philip Sheppard.
He developed a technique for preventing rhesus babies , by injecting antibodies into those affected.
He was married to Lady Féo Clarke, who died in 1998. They had three sons.
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