Edward Parfitt
1820–93
Naturalist and gardener. His interest in botany and entomology intensified during an enforced stay in the Cape Colony following a shipwreck. Became gardener to John Milford, Exeter, in 1848. Curator to the Archaeological and Natural History Society of Somerset, 1859–61. Librarian to the Devon and Exeter Institute, 1861–93.
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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