Benjamin Bynoe
1803–65
Ship’s surgeon and naturalist. Born on Barbados. Member, Royal College of Surgeons, 1825. Assistant surgeon, Royal Navy, 1825. Served on the Beagle as assistant and acting surgeon, 1825–36; surgeon, 1837–43. Served on a number of other ships, retiring in 1863. Collected many natural history specimens.
Source
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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