Thomas Campbell Eyton
1809–80
Shropshire naturalist. Friend and Cambridge contemporary of CD. Author of several works on natural history. On coming into possession of the family estate at Eyton, Shropshire, in 1855, he built a museum for which he formed a collection of skins and skeletons of European birds. A magistrate throughout his adult life.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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