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John Edward Gray FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828).
- Zoology
- St Mary's Church, Lewisham
- Classification of many cetacean species, genera, subfamilies, and families
Mar 7, 2023 · John Edward Gray. MARCH 7, 2023. John Edward Gray, an English zoologist, died Mar. 7, 1875, at the age of 75. John was a sickly child - indeed, by his own account, he was confined to a chair for 8 months out of...
John Edward Gray (1800-1875), naturalist, was born on 12 February 1800 at Walsall, Staffordshire, England, the second son of Samuel Frederick Gray. He began to study for the medical profession but abandoned it and took up zoology.
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John Edward Gray FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) studied medicine in London, and became an English zoologist . Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum from 1840 until Christmas 1874. That was before the natural history holdings were split off to be the Natural History Museum .
Dr John Edward Gray. primary name: primary name: Gray, John Edward. Details. individual; curator; scientist/engineer; British; Male. Life dates. 1800-1875. Biography. FRS; keeper of the zoological dept, British Museum; married Maria Emma Smith in 1826. See also his brother, George Robert Gray, and Emma J Gray, most likely his relative.
JOHN EDWARD GRAY (1800-1875), English naturalist, born at Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1800, was the eldest of the three sons of S. F. Gray, of that town, druggist and writer on botany, and author of the Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia, &c., his grandfather being S. F. Gray, who translated the Philosophia Botanica of Linnaeus for the Introduction ...
Feb 29, 2012 · John Edward Gray was a major figure in zoology in the middle of the 19th Century. An annotated bibliography of his mol-luscan publications is given with all works collated and dated, with questions of authorship discussed.
