Samuel Husband Beckles
1814–90
Barrister and palaeontologist. Discovered in the Purbeck beds the oldest known mammalian fossils. FRS 1859.
Sources
Modern English biography
Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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