Name William Wood Role Author | Died 1857 | |
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William Wood FRS FLS (1774–1857), was an English surgeon, zoologist and entomologist.
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He was born in Kendal, Cumbria and trained in surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised for several years as a surgeon at Wingham, near Canterbury and in London, but left the medical profession to become a natural history bookseller, publisher and naturalist.
He was the author of several natural history books, especially on the Mollusca. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1812) and a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
He died in Ruislip, Middlesex.
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