Bill Symondson

William. O.C. (Bill) Symondson was born in 1951 in Hertfordshire but grew up in Buckinghamshire and later Devon. He read for a BA degree in English literature at Keele University, where after he and his wife Sarah ‘dropped out’, living on a smallholding in Wales. When their daughter Georgia was born, he studied for a PhD in Ecology at Cardiff University, followed by thirty years of research studying the diets of insects, birds and reptiles. On his retirement in 2021, he was made Emeritus Professor at the University.