John Vaughan Thompson
1779–1847
Zoologist and army surgeon. Surgeon with the British army, 1799–1816, including postings in the West Indies and Madagascar. Surgeon to the forces in Cork, Ireland, and later deputy inspector-general of hospitals, 1816–35. Medical officer in charge of the convict settlements of New South Wales, Australia, 1835–47. Studied Polyzoa, Cirripedia, and Crustacea. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1810.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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