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Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
1835–1926
An Anglican clergyman who found his true calling in natural history, he became one of the key early specialists in crustaceans. His work helped shape the study of amphipods and other marine life for later generations.
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Darwinism. The Noachian Flood A lecture delivered before the Torquay Natural History Society, Jan. 31st, 1870
by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Essays on Darwinism
by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
About the author
Born in London in 1835, Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing was a British zoologist and ordained Anglican priest. He was educated in London and Oxford, and turned seriously toward natural history in his thirties after working as a teacher.
Stebbing is best remembered for his studies of crustaceans, especially amphipods. He described himself, with dry humor, as "a serf to natural history, principally employed about Crustacea," and his research earned him recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He died in Royal Tunbridge Wells in 1926. Though not as widely known today as some Victorian naturalists, he played an important part in building the scientific understanding of marine invertebrates in Britain.