William Wilson Saunders
1809–79
Insurance broker, entomologist, and botanist. Underwriter at Lloyd’s of London. President of the Entomological Society of London, 1841–2 and 1856–7. Treasurer of the Linnean Society of London, 1861–73. FRS 1853.
Source
R. Desmond 1994, ODNB.
Bibliography
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.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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