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Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham

1843–1919

Politician and entomologist. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1865. Conservative MP for West Norfolk, 1865. Succeeded his father as sixth Baron Walsingham in 1870. President of the Entomological Society of London, 1889–90. Maintained the Merton flock of Southdown sheep at his estate. FRS 1887.

Sources

ODNB

Southland Times, 24 June 1884, p. 4

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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