Ernest Edmund Molyneux Royds
1848–92
Banker, magistrate, and rabbit and poultry fancier. Of Greenhill, Rochdale, Lancashire. Provided rabbits for Francis Galton’s transfusion experiments, and judged poultry shows.
Sources
BMD (Birth index
Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (RG11/4109/45)
Correspondence vol. 18, letter from Francis Galton, 8 April 1870
Galton 1871, p. 405.
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [Read 30 March 1871.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870–1): 393–410.
