Thomas Hawkins
1810–89
Palaeontological collector. Lived at Sharpham Park, near Glastonbury, Somerset, circa 1832–45. Collected fossils, especially ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, through local quarriers and from Mary Anning in Lyme Regis. Sold two collections to the British Museum, in 1834 and 1840.
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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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