Patrick Matthew
1790–1874
Scottish gentleman farmer. Author of works on political and agricultural subjects. Advanced a theory of natural selection in the 1830s.
Source
Dempster 1996, R. Desmond 1994.
Bibliography
Dempster, W. J. 1996. Natural selection and Patrick Matthew. Evolutionary concepts in the nineteenth century. Durham: Pentland Press.
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.