About Frederick Erasmus Edwards
Lived 1799 – 1875 (aged 76). Frederick Erasmus Edwards was a geologist.
Frederick Erasmus Edwards FGS (1 October 1799 – 15 October 1875) was a British law clerk in the Court of Chancery and an amateur geologist, known for his collection of Eocene Tertiary Mollusca.
F. E. Edwards, with James Scott Bowerbank and five other naturalists, founded the London Clay Club in 1836 and was also a founding member of the Palaeontographical Society in 1847.
He is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.
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British law clerk and amateur geologist
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Frederick Erasmus Edwards was born on 1 October 1799.
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Frederick Erasmus Edwards died on 15 October 1875.
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Frederick Erasmus Edwards was a geologist.
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