Day, Francis (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist, was born on 2 March 1829 at Maresfield, Sussex, the third son of William Day (1797–1849) and his wife, Ann Elliott, née Le Blanc. The family moved to Hadlow House in Mayfield about 1833, and farmed an estate of some ...
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Geoffrey Fryer
Greenwood, (Peter) Humphry (1927–1995), ichthyologist, was born on 21 April 1927 in Redruth, Cornwall, the only child of Percy Ashworth Greenwood (1896–1963), mining engineer, and his wife, Joyce May, née Wilton (1893–1957). His father (a Lancastrian, who had met his Cornish wife while studying at the ...
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Günther [Gunther], Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf [formerly Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf] (1830–1914), ichthyologist and museum administrator, was born at Esslingen in the state of Württemberg, south Germany, on 3 October 1830, the elder son of Friedrich Gotthilf Günther (1800–1835), Stiftungs-kommissar of estates in ...
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Rosemary Lowe-McConnell
Trewavas, Ethelwynn (1900–1993), ichthyologist, was born on 5 November 1900 in Penzance, Cornwall, the eldest of four children (three girls and a boy) of Benjamin James Trewavas (1869–1960), surveyor of borough revenues in Penzance and a Wesleyan Methodist lay preacher, and his wife, ...
