From 1959 they started running a moth trap in Caldy Common near West Kirby, Wirral, England.
Philip Sheppard, Cyril Clarke, Bernard Kettlewell and A.J. Cain were all strongly influenced by Ford; their careers date from the post WWII era.
1980 - Finn, together with Cyril Clarke, John Gorman, Vincent Freda, and William Pollack were jointly awarded the 1980 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for pioneering work on the Rhesus blood group system, the role of anti-RhD antibodies in the causation of Rh disease, and the prevention of Rh disease with anti-D antibodies.
One of the West Kirby team, (Sir) Cyril Clarke, was a member of the Oxford & Cambridge Sailing Society, and he and the other two helmsmen (Harry Dennis and Glyn Evans) resolved to run a similar event at West Kirby the following year.
Arthur C. Clarke | Cyril of Alexandria | Cam Clarke | Ron Clarke | Warren Clarke | Kenneth Clarke | Clarke Carlisle | Shirley Clarke | Ronald J. Clarke | Richard A. Clarke | Cyril Wecht | Cyril Ramaphosa | Saints Cyril and Methodius | Harry Clarke | Gillian Clarke | Cyril Clarke | Cyril | Susanna Clarke | Steve Clarke | Richard Clarke | Noel Clarke | John Cooper Clarke | Frederick Clarke Withers | Franklin Clarke | Cyril Scott | Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall | Cyril Connolly | Cyril Bibby | Charles Cowden Clarke | Oz Clarke |
In 1961 Sheppard started a colony of scarlet tiger moths by the Wirral Way, West Kirby, Merseyside, which were rediscovered in 1988 by Cyril Clarke, who continued to observe them in his retirement to study changes in the moth population.