Frederick Daniel Dyster
1810–93
Physician, philanthropist, and naturalist. MD, Giessen; MRCP 1859. Practised in Tenby, Pembrokeshire; town councillor, 1866–72; mayor, 1867–8. Founder trustee of the Tenby Museum and donor of a scientific library. Paid off Tenby Hospital’s debt and built a women’s ward. Encouraged by his friend Thomas Henry Huxley, promoted education of working men and lectured frequently. Donated money to found the Baly medal of the Royal College of Physicians, 1866. Worked mainly on annelid worms.
Sources
British Medical Journal, 4 November 1911, p. 1222
Daves 1981, pp. 17–19
List of the fellows, members, extra-licentiates, and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1888
Bibliography
Daves, Margaret. 1981. Victorian naturalists in Tenby. Pembrokeshire Historian: Journal of the Pembrokeshire Local History Society 7: 16–23.
List of the fellows, members, extra-licentiates, and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of London. London: Harrison and Sons. 1859–[1986].
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