Julian Kenny

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name = Julian Stanley Kenny
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birth_date = January 27, 1930
birth_place = Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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residence = Trinidad and Tobago
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field = Zoology
work_institutions = University of the West Indies
alma_mater = Birkbeck College, University of London
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Julian Stanley "Jake" Kenny (born January 27, 1930 in Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian zoologist and columnist and retired Professor of Zoology at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indiescite web | url = http://caribbean-icons.org/science/julian-kenny.htm | title = Julian Stanley Kenny - zoologist | accessdate = 2007-12-06 | work = Caribbean Icons in Science, Technology & Innovation | publisher = ] and a former Independent Senator in the fifth (1995-2000) [ [http://www.ttparliament.org/hansard/senate/1995/hs951127.pdf Hansard] ] and sixth (2001) [ [http://www.ttparliament.org/hansard/senate/2001/hs20010112.pdf Hansard] ] Parliaments. He is best known for his work on freshwater fishes and anurans, and for his contribution to the conservation movement in Trinidad and Tobago.

Kenny was educated at Belmont Intermediate School and then at St Mary's. After completing Grade 13 at a Canadian boarding school, he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. After working at a fisheries laboratory in Canada, Kenny returned to Trinidad where he worked as a scientific officer in what would later become the Fisheries Division. After working there for nine years, he entered Birbeck College, University of London, where he obtained a PhD After graduating he joined the Department of Biological Sciences at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. After retiring from the department Kenny served Chairman of the Trustees of the Guardian Life Wildlife Fund. Between 1995 and 2001 he served as an Independent Senator.

Kenny also writes a column in the "Trinidad and Tobago Express" newspaper.

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