词条 | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
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Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge,[2] where he was a contemporary and friend of Charles Darwin. After succeeding to the estate in 1855 Eyton built a large natural history museum at Eyton Hall. Eyton published History of the Rarer British Birds (1836), A Monograph on the Anatidae, Or Duck Tribe (1838), A History of Oyster and Oyster Fisheries (1858) and Osteologia Avium (1871–78). He established in about 1842 the "Herd Book of Hereford Cattle", which he edited until 1860[2] Eyton was married in 1835 to Eizabeth Frances Slaney, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Robert Aglionby Slaney MP. She pre-deceased him by ten years.[3] He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and a Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire.[3] He served in the South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry, entering as cornet in 1830, and promoted lieutenant in 1838.[4] References1. ^{{Cite book|last=Darwin|first=Charles|author2=Gillian Beer |title=The Origin of Species|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1998|pages=400|isbn=0-19-283438-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDrPI52uFQsC&pg=PA400&dq=%22Thomas+Campbell+Eyton%22|accessdate=2008-05-24}} 2. ^1 {{acad|id=ETN827TC|name=Eyton, Thomas Campbell}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|title=Obituary: Thomas Campbell Eyton|date=29 October 1880|work=The Times|pages=6, col A|location=London}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Gladstone|first=E.W.|title=The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment|year=1953|publisher=The Whitethorn Press|page=38,42}}
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9 : 1809 births|1880 deaths|English ornithologists|Fellows of the Zoological Society of London|People from Wellington, Shropshire|Shropshire Yeomanry officers|Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge|Deputy Lieutenants of Shropshire|English naturalists |
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