William Henry Bateson
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William Henry Bateson was a British scholar and, from 1857 until 1881, Master
Master (college)
A Master is the title of the head of some colleges and other educational institutions. This applies especially at some colleges and institutions at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge .- See also :* Master A Master (or in female form Mistress) is the title of the head of some...

 of St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

. In 1858 Bateson held the position of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is the father of the geneticist William Bateson
William Bateson
William Bateson was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge...

 and the grandfather of cyberneticist Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...

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