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Thomas Edmondston
1825 - 1846

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• Birth	20 Sep 1825	Buness, Unst, Shetland
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Naturalist
  Died	24 Jan 1846	Sua Bay, Peru
  Person ID	I25452	Sandison/Roscoe Tree
  Last Modified	01 Dec 2006

  
  

  Father	Laurence Edmondston,   b. 9 Feb 1795, Lerwick, Shetland ,   d. 7 Mar 1879, Halligarth, Unst, Shetland
  Mother	Eliza Tod MacBrair,   b. 10 Jul 1801, Frankfield, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,   d. 19 Feb 1869, Unst, Shetland
  Married	8 Oct 1824	St Mary's Church, Dublin, Ireland
  Family ID	F2737	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Author of 'Flora of Shetland', discoverer of the plant Araneria Norvegica, professor of botany at Andersonian University of Glasgow at age 20. Appointed naturalist on board HMS Herald on scientific expedition to Pacific, accidentally killed in Peru. [S147]