Frederick F. Geach
1834/5–90
Mining engineer. Worked for the Portuguese government in Timor, where he met Alfred Russel Wallace in 1861, and was working in Malacca (Melaka) in 1867. Later a mineral and consulting engineer in Guildford, Surrey.
Sources
BMD (Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/812/45/34)
Correspondence vol. 15, letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 March [1867]
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 August 2015)
Marchant ed. 1916
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Marchant, James, ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace. Letters and reminiscences. 2 vols. London: Cassell and Company.