EDWARD

Thomas ( son of a hand-loom linen weaver ). b. Gosport, Hants. 25 Dec. 1814; shoemaker at Banff 1835; collected nearly 2000 species of animals which he exhibited at Banff fair, May 1845 and 1846; discovered 20 new species of Se ile-eyed Crustacea; curator of museum of Banff Institution to 1882; A.L.S. 1866; collected nearly every plant in Aberdeen shire and Banffshire; granted civil list pension of £50, 24 Jany. 1877. d. 27 April 1886. Life of a Scotch Naturalist by S. Smiles 1882; Stories of remarkable persons by W. Chambers (1878) 158–71; Graphic xv , 256 (1877), portrait .