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Theodore Thomson Flynn MBE FLS FZS FRS MRIA (11 October 1883 – 23 October 1968) was an Australian-British zoologist and marine biologist and a professor in both Tasmania and the United Kingdom. He was the first biology professor in Tasmania.
Theodore Thomson Flynn was one of the signatories to this illuminated address presented to Leonard Rodway by the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club, congratulating him on being appointed a Companion of St Michael and St George in 1917 and expressing the club’s gratitude for his work and support.
Theodore Thomson Flynn (1883-1968), zoologist, and Errol Leslie Flynn (1909-1959), film actor, were father and son. Theodore was born on 11 October 1883 at Coraki, New South Wales, son of John Thompson Flynn, cordial manufacturer, and his wife Jessie, née Thomson.
8 Jul 1990 · Professor Eric Guiler, School of Zoology, Sunday Tasmanian, 8 July 1990. Born in 1883, Theodore Thomson Flynn received a Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney before teaching high school science, then chemistry and physics at Newcastle and Maitland Technical Colleges.
In April 1909, Theodore Thomson Flynn arrived in Tasmania to become the first lecturer in the newly established department in biology at the University of Tasmania. The University itself was then nineteen years old, having been established in June 1890.
Theodore Flynn was appointed the first lecturer in biology at the University of Tasmania (1909) and from 1911 was Professor of Biology. Although his early interest was marsupials, he later developed an interest in marine biology.
Theodore Thomson Flynn Tasmania's first Professor of Biology. Zoological research. Thylacine skull, 1919. Bettong taxidermy. Bettong specimen. Flynn is credited with being one of the first scientists to warn of the thylacine’s impending extinction. David Owen & David Pemberton, 2005 Tasmanian Devil: A Unique and Threatened Animal.
