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'''Frank Jeal''' was born in London in 1937 but grew up in rural Oxfordshire. On leaving school he served two years as an able-seaman in the Royal Navy, aboard HMS Maidstone, a submarine depot ship which had been based in Malta in 1939! He then went to his local University on a state scholarship to read Natural Sciences. At Oxford he also gained an interest in folk music and learned to play the accordion for folk and Morris-dance groups. | '''Frank Jeal''' [[File:Frank Jeal and Karl Partridge Malta May 2013.jpg|340px|thumb|right|Professor Frank Jeal and Dr. Karl Partridge attending a folk music event in Għaxaq, May 2013.]] was born in London in 1937 but grew up in rural Oxfordshire. On leaving school he served two years as an able-seaman in the Royal Navy, aboard HMS Maidstone, a submarine depot ship which had been based in Malta in 1939! He then went to his local University on a state scholarship to read Natural Sciences. At Oxford he also gained an interest in folk music and learned to play the accordion for folk and Morris-dance groups. | ||
Jeal then went to Bangor, North Wales to study for a PhD in embryology, and also founded a folk club. He then moved to Ireland, obtaining a lectureship in zoology at Trinity College, Dublin, where he has remained ever since, apart from a ten year period when he worked part of each year in the University of Jamaica assisting in research on coral reefs. | Jeal then went to Bangor, North Wales to study for a PhD in embryology, and also founded a folk club. He then moved to Ireland, obtaining a lectureship in zoology at Trinity College, Dublin, where he has remained ever since, apart from a ten year period when he worked part of each year in the University of Jamaica assisting in research on coral reefs. | ||
In Ireland he has maintained an interest in Irish traditional music in general and the native Irish bagpipe, Uillean Pipes, in particular. Sadly, he never learned to play one! | In Ireland he has maintained an interest in Irish traditional music in general and the native Irish bagpipe, Uillean Pipes, in particular. Sadly, he never learned to play one! | ||
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Frank Jeal
was born in London in 1937 but grew up in rural Oxfordshire. On leaving school he served two years as an able-seaman in the Royal Navy, aboard HMS Maidstone, a submarine depot ship which had been based in Malta in 1939! He then went to his local University on a state scholarship to read Natural Sciences. At Oxford he also gained an interest in folk music and learned to play the accordion for folk and Morris-dance groups.
Jeal then went to Bangor, North Wales to study for a PhD in embryology, and also founded a folk club. He then moved to Ireland, obtaining a lectureship in zoology at Trinity College, Dublin, where he has remained ever since, apart from a ten year period when he worked part of each year in the University of Jamaica assisting in research on coral reefs. In Ireland he has maintained an interest in Irish traditional music in general and the native Irish bagpipe, Uillean Pipes, in particular. Sadly, he never learned to play one!