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William Charles Linnaeus Martin

1798–1864

Writer on natural history. Resided in Lee, Kent. Superintendent of the museum of the Zoological Society of London, 1830–8. Wrote works on domestic animals.

Sources

DNB

Gentleman’s Magazine 1 (1864): 536, Modern English biography.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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.

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