Redmond ohanlon biography

English writer and scholar

For the Irish 17th century outlaw, see Redmond O'Hanlon (outlaw).

Redmond O'HanlonFRGSFRSL is an English writer and scholar.

Early life and education

O'Hanlon was born in Dorset, England. He was educated at Marlborough College and then Oxford University.

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After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974 Alistair Horne Research Fellow, at St Antony's College, Oxford. He completed his doctoral thesis, Changing scientific concepts of nature in the English novel, 1850–1920, in 1977.^{[citation needed]}

Though very religious when he was young, O'Hanlon became an atheist upon his discovery of the works of Charles Darwin.^[1]

Career

From 1970 to 1974, O'Hanlon was a member of the literature panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain.^[2]

He was elected a member of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History in 1982,