Thomas Campbell Eyton
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Eyton was born at Eyton Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire. He studied at Cambridge University with his friend 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).
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- Biography (http://www.darwincountry.org/explore/000284.html?sid=e652c6dc20ead5aeb4b4f65254558750)fr:Thomas Campbell Eyton