Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy

The Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a chair at University College London, endowed (shortly after the Jodrell Chair of Physiology) by TJ Phillips Jodrell in 1874.

UCL was the first university in England to have a Chair of Zoology, and the first holder was Robert Edmond Grant after which the post received the Jodrell endowment.{{cite book |last1=Harte |first1=Negley B. |first2=John |last2=North |first3=Georgina |last3=Brewis |title=The world of UCL |date=2018 |url={{Google books|TLBdDwAAQBAJ|page=PT48|plainurl=true}}|doi=10.2307/j.ctv1xz0vg.8 |pages=95–97|publisher=UCL Press|location=London |isbn=9781787352933 |edition=Revised and updated [fourth]}}

Until 1948, the professor of Zoology was also Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology, after this point the two roles were separated.

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Jodrell was a 'wealthy eccentric' who went insane before his gift could be completed, requiring the 'Masters in Lunacy' to confirm the donation.