Roger Hughes obituary

My friend Roger Hughes, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 71, was the Lloyd Roberts professor of zoology at Bangor University.

Youngest of three children of Caroline (nee Lingard) and Robert Hughes, both schoolteachers, Roger was born in Padiham, Lancashire. From an early age he was interested in ponds, streams and woods, and fishing in the local streams for trout. He attended Accrington grammar school, then the University College of North Wales (now known as Bangor University) and was awarded first-class honours in zoology in 1965. At the university's marine laboratories he gained a PhD for research into the feeding and reproduction of a bivalve mollusc.