Thomas Southwell | |
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| Born | 15 June 1831[1] |
| Died | 5 September 1909 (aged 78) Norwich, England |
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Thomas Soutwell (1831-1909) was an English bank employee and an (amateur) naturalist. He published about seals and whales (fishery), and about the birds of Norfolk.
Biography edit
Thomas Southwell was born at King’s Lynn on 15 june 1831. He was the son of Jane Castell and Charles Elmer Southwell. His father was chief cashier at the Lynn branch of Gurney’s bank (nowadays Barclays). Thomas started his career in 1846 in that same bank. In 1852 he was transferred to Fakenham and in 1867 to Norwich. In Norwich, at the headquarters of the bank he worked until his retirement in 1896.
On 15 June 1868 he married Margaret Fyson. They had two daughters.
Natural history edit
Southwell devoted almost all of his leisure time to the natural history of Norfolk. He was also interested in the archaeology and topography of The Fens, ....
Bibliography edit
Books edit
- Southwell, Thomas (1881). The Seals and Whales of the British Seas. London: Jarrold and Sons. OCLC 964814744. OCLC 1084954023 (all editions).[2]
- Browne, Thomas (1902). Southwell (check!!!!) (ed.). Notes and letters on the natural history of Norfolk : more especially on the birds and fishes : from the Mss. of Sir Thomas Browne, M.D. (1605-1682) in the Sloane Collection in the library of the British Museum and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
etc. zie verder onder Browne
- Stevenson, Henry. The Birds of Norfolk vol. III (1890).
etc.
Journal articles edit
Southwell contributed to Science Gossip. His The Seals and Whales of the British Seas (1881) consisted of papers reprinted from this magazine.
Southwell made many contributions to Transactions etc. see e.g. vol 1: https://archive.org/details/transactions08socigoog/page/n15
Southwell did also publish regularly in The Zoologist:
- from 1884 until
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References edit
- ^ Hooper & Foote 2004.
- ^ See also: copy in BHL.
Sources edit
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Southwell, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.- Hooper, James; Foote, Yolanda (2004). "Southwell, Thomas (1831–1909)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40789. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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