Lancelot Ware

Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE ( born June 5, 1915 in Mitcham, Surrey; † 15 August 2000) was an English lawyer and co-founder of Mensa International.

Lancelot Ware's fame is mainly based on the founding of Mensa International, the well-known international company for the gifted, together with the Australian lawyer Roland Berrill in 1946. Originally the club " High IQ Club ", should read.

Ware was born as the eldest son of a businessman and a musician. He was on the Steyning Grammar School and Sutton Grammar School. Later he attended Imperial College London and studied mathematics, followed by a doctorate (PhD) in biochemistry. He was involved in medical research with Sir Henry Dale at the National Institute for Medical Research in Hampstead, London, and was a non- clinical medical researcher and professor of biochemistry at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

During the Second World War goods working on the secret military research facility Porton Down. He then worked for the Boots Company in Nottingham. During this time he learned IQ tests know. At the end of the war in 1945, he began his legal studies at Lincoln College, Oxford. During his time at Oxford, he founded on October 1, 1946 Mensa International. Originally, the company should make the 1% most intelligent members of society gather, then due to a calculation error you came to the smartest 2 % of the company, what is the criterion for Mensa membership today.

Goods entered in 1983 the Athenaeum Club for intellectuals at. He was awarded the OBE to reward his services for the Institute of Patentees and Inventors, which he chaired for many years. Goods entered 1985 into retirement and then at first lived in Surrey, London, Exeter and later in Surrey.