Peter Grubb

Who is Peter Grubb?

Peter Grubb was an English zoologist. He often collaborated with Colin Groves and described several new mammal taxa including Felis margarita harrisoni, the Bornean yellow muntjac, the Nigerian white-throated guenon, Cephalophus nigrifrons hypoxanthus, the White-legged duiker, Cephalophus silvicultor curticeps, Cephalophus weynsi lestradei, the Kashmir musk deer, and the Niger Delta red colobus.

Grubb was born in Ealing, West London. His father William Grubb was research chemist at the Imperial Chemical Industries and later worked as science teacher in Scotland. His mother Anne Sirutis was a school teacher from Lithuania. His younter sister Katrina is an artist. After his BSc graduation in Zoology at the University College London Grubb was research assistant in the Wellcome Institute of the Zoological Society of London. In the early 1960s he went to St Kilda, Scotland for three years where he studied Soay sheeps for his PhD thesis. For this work he received the Thomas Henry Huxley Award of the Zoological Society of London in 1968. In the same year he took part at the Royal Society expedition to Aldabra where he worked particularly on the Giant tortoises.