Alfred Edwin Eaton
1844/5–1929
Clergyman and naturalist. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1868. Ordained priest, 1870. Held various curacies; vicar of Shepton-Montague, Somerset, 1887–92. A naturalist on the transit of Venus expedition to Kerguelen’s Land, 1874–5.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
Eaton 2012
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
Eaton, Alfred Edwin. 2012. An account of the petrological, botanical and zoological collections made in Kerguelen’s Land and Rodriguez during the transit of Venus expeditions 1874–75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Reprint of Royal Society of London. 1879. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. An account of the petrological, botanical, and zoological collections made in Kerguelen’s Land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus expeditions carried out by order of Her Majesty’s government in the years 1874–75. London: G. E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode.]
