James Thomson
1819/20–69
Zookeeper. Keeper of the gardens of the Zoological Society of London; head keeper, 1852. Sent to India to collect Himalayan pheasants, 1856–7. Head keeper,1859; pensioned, 1869.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/83/125/29)
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 October 2017)
Scherren, Henry 1905: 104, 117–18, 127
Bibliography
Scherren, Henry. 1905. The Zoological Society of London: a sketch of its foundation and development and the story of its farm, museum, gardens, menagerie and library. London: Cassell.
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