COUCH

Jonathan ( only child of Richard Couch of Polperro, Cornwall 1739–1823 ). b. Polperro 15 March 1789; surgeon at Polperro 1810 to death; F.L.S. 6 April 1824; contributed to T. Bewick’s British Quadrupeds and W. Yarrell’s British Fishes ; author of Cornish Fauna 3 parts 1838–44; Illustrations of instinct deduced from the habits of British animals 1847; A history of the fishes of the British islands 4 vols. 1860–65; translated Pliny’s Natural history 3 vols. 1847–50, published by the Wernerian Club. d. Polperro 13 April 1870. The history of Polperro by the late Jonathan Couch, with a short account of his life by T. Q. Couch 1871; Life of a Scotch naturalist Thomas Edward (1877) 292, 296, 333–49.