Bigsby, John [Jeremiah] ♂

Education

Student United College 1809-1810 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Jun. 1810-1811 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Math. Prov.; Physics.

(Secondar)

Birth/childhood

Baptised 14.8.1792 son of John Bigsby M.D., Retford, Nottinghamshire and Mary Chamberlain.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - M.D. 1814.

Physician Newark 1827 - 1846. Lived in London 1846 till death. F.G.S. 1823. F.R.G.S. 1850. F.R.S. 1869. [Doctor]

Geologist and palaeontologist.

Publications

The Shoe and Canoe, or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas Vol. 1. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850). Vol. 2.

Flora and Fauna of the Silurian Period (London: John van Voorst, 1868)

etc.

Death

Died London 10.2.1881.

Sources

• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
• StAUL MS38277)