Harold Benjamin Fantham

Harold Benjamin Fantham (1876–1937) was an English zoologist and protozoologist. Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and University College London, he lectured on parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and worked on the trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness, on the parasites of grouse and on the protozoa of the human intestine. He wrote the protozoa section of The Animal Parasites of Man in 1916 with J. W. W. Stephens and F. V. Theobald. From 1917 he was professor of zoology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he also wrote on eugenics, and he ended his career as professor of zoology at McGill University in Montreal.