Thomas Brittain
1806–84
Naturalist and accountant. One of the promoters of the Manchester Microscopical Society, 1858. Vice-president and president of a second Manchester Microscopical Society, established in 1879. Lectured on natural science to mechanics’ institutes and similar bodies. Published a guide to microfungi.
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ODNB
Bibliography
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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