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Reginald Crundall Punnett, 1875-1967

1967; Royal Society; Volume: 13; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rsbm.1967.0016

1748-8494

F. A. E. Crew,

Australian History and Society

Reginald Crundall Punnett, the eldest of the three children (♂, ♂, ♀) of George Punnett and his wife Emily Crundall, was born at Tonbridge in Kent on 20 June 1875. Both of the parental families were of Kentish stock. The name Punnett is a fairly common one in Kent and Sussex and is frequently to be encountered in the parish registers of the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a hamlet called Punnett’s Town near Heathfield in Sussex. In the 18th century a member of the family, a grower of strawberries, among other things, invented and gave his name to the small chip basket in which he sent his produce from Bromley to the London market. Punnett’s paternal grandfather settled in Tonbridge in 1827 there to found a building firm which is still in existence. This firm built much of Tonbridge School as well as many of the fine houses in the town. His maternal grandfather was the founder of a timber merchant’s firm, William Crundall & Son, in Dover, of which town his eldest son, Sir William Crundall, was mayor for no less than thirteen years. The family probably had its origin in the little village of Crundale, near Wye, and some 10 miles from Charing. It is recorded that the Charing Cross was fashioned by one Richard de Crundall and his son Robert.