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'''Sir Konkoth Ramunni Menon'''<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page= 2857 |ref=Burke |isbn=}}</ref> (14 September 1872 – {{circa|February}} 1949)<ref>{{cite news |title= Obituary |work=[[The Times]] |date= 5 February 1949|page=6 }}</ref> was an [[India]]n educator who was the vice chancellor of the [[University of Madras]] from 1928 to 1934.<ref name="Aiyangar1995">{{cite book|author=Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar|title=Ramanujan: Letters and Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Of5G0r6DQiEC&pg=PA257|accessdate=19 June 2013|year=1995|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-9125-4|pages=257–}}</ref> <br />
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==Biography==<br />
Menon received a B.A from the [[University of Madras]]<ref name="Aiyangar1995" /> and proceeded to England for higher study to [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite web|last=Viju|first=K. N.|title=Recording rarities|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/08/19/stories/2005081900670200.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130620042707/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/08/19/stories/2005081900670200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 June 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=2005-08-19|accessdate=19 August 2005}}</ref><br />
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He obtained first class honours in both parts of the [[Natural Sciences (Cambridge)|Natural Sciences Tripos]] and returned to [[India]] after obtaining his M.A.<ref name="Aiyangar1995" /><br />
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In 1910 he became professor of zoology at the [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College, Madras]]. The Department of Zoology of [[University of Madras]] was established in 1927 and Menon was made its honorary director<ref name="Dasgupta2011">{{cite book|author=Uma Dasgupta|title=Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, C. 1784-1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrx3wLz4itkC&pg=PA685|accessdate=19 June 2013|year=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-2818-5|pages=685–}}</ref> after he became the vice chancellor of the [[University of Madras]] in 1928.<br />
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He was knighted in the [[1933 New Year Honours]] list and invested with his knighthood on 3 March 1933 by the Viceroy, the Earl of Willingdon, at New Delhi.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33898/supplements/3 The London Gazette, 2 January 1933]</ref><ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33929/pages/2485 The London Gazette, 11 April 1933]</ref> He served as the vice chancellor up to 1934 and during his time he first introduced music as a subject at Madras University.<ref name="The Hindu" /><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
Menon was invited to preside over the annual [[Madras Music Academy|Music Academy]]'s Sadas in 1944 and was also one of the founding fathers of the [[Tamil Isai Sangam]].<ref name="The Hindu" /> He is also the maternal grandfather of [[musicologist]] [[Indira Menon]].<ref name="The Hindu" /><br />
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He first proposed in a letter to [[G. H. Hardy]] dated 28 July 1920 to pay [[Ramanujan]]'s wife a monthly annuity of 20 rupees per month for handing over her husband's documents.<ref name="BerndtRankin2001">{{cite book|author1=Bruce C. Berndt|author2=Robert Alexander Rankin|title=Ramanujan: Essays and Surveys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TT1T8A94xNcC&pg=PA135|accessdate=19 June 2013|year=2001|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-2624-9|pages=135–}}</ref><br />
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A species of amphibian, Menon's caecilian (''[[Uraeotyphlus menoni]]''), is named for him.<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Beolens | first1 = Bo | last2 = Watkins | first2 = Michael | last3 = Grayson | first3 = Michael |name-list-style=amp |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QJY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA140 |date=2013 |publisher=Pelagic Publishing |isbn=978-1-907807-42-8 |page=140}}</ref><br />
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