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George Richard Jesse

1820–98

French-born engineer. Worked as a civil engineer in England, India, and Egypt. Founded the Society for the Abolition of Vivisection in 1875.

Source

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

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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