David Badham

Educated at Westminster School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and later Pembroke College, Oxford, he first trained and worked as a physician. He spent time practising medicine in Rome and Paris before poor health forced him to leave that profession.

After returning to England, he was ordained in 1847 and served curacies in East Anglia. Alongside his clerical work, he devoted himself to natural history and became a frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine.

His best-known books include Insect Life (1845), The Esculent Funguses of England (1847), and Prose Halieutics; or, Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle (1854). He died at East Bergholt in Suffolk in 1857.