George Newport
1803–54
Naturalist and surgeon. Practised medicine in London, 1837–47. President of the Entomological Society, 1844–5. Received a pension in 1847, after which he devoted himself to natural history. FRS 1846.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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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