Thomas Edward

Thomas Edward (1814-1886) was a Scottish naturalist, born at Gosport. He was bred a shoemaker. He was settled in Banff, where he devoted his leisure to the study of animal nature, and collected numerous specimens of animals, which he stuffed and exhibited, but with pecuniary loss. The Queen's attention being called to his case, settled on him an annual pension of £50, while the citizens of Aberdeen presented him in March 1877 with a gift of 130 sovereigns, on which occasion he made a characteristic speech.

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