Thomas Campbell Eyton
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Thomas Campbell Eyton.
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).
External link
- Biography (http://www.darwincountry.org/explore/000284.html?sid=e652c6dc20ead5aeb4b4f65254558750)fr:Thomas Campbell Eyton