Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing is a priest and a British Naturaliste , born the February 6th 1835 with London and dead the July 8th 1926 with Royal Tunbridge Wells.
He is the son of the poet, historian and man of the church Henry Stebbing (1799-1883). He makes his studies in King' S College of London where he obtains his Bachelor off Arts in 1855. It is ordered priest in 1859. It supplements its thin incomes while becoming tutor in particular with Reigate starting from 1863. There, it meets the Botaniste and Entomologiste William Wilson Saunders (1809-1879) and Marie with her daughter, Mary Anne, in 1867. The young couple moves in then with Torquay where it finds a group of naturalists among whom the geologist William Pengelly (1812-1894).
It is at this time, which he discovers the theory of the evolution of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and becomes a burning defender about it. He makes appear very many publications to analyze and demolish the arguments of the opponents. For Stebbing, Darwin changed the world and created one new era.
In 1877, the Stebbing family moves in Tunbridge Wells in order to approach the London students and to find more pupils for its lessons. That also enables him more assiduously to attend the scientific circles, the libraries and the natural history musea of the capital. Stebbing makes appear approximately 180 scientific publications, mainly on shellfish. Its reputation is established when he studies the collection consisted Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (1830-1882) at the time of the voyage of '' HMS Challenger '' (1873-1876). Stebbins makes appear a work of 600 pages devoted to the Amphipode S.
He becomes member of the Société linnéenne of London in 1895 and of the Royal Society in 1896. He receives the gold medal Company linnéenne in 1908.
Source
- Biography in English on the site of King' S College of London
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