Johann Christian Carl (Charles) Jamrach
1815–91
German-born dealer in wild animals. Took over his father’s London-based business dealing in birds and shells after his father’s death in about 1840. Imported all kinds of animals for naturalists, zoos, and circuses. Bred long-coated Persian greyhounds (salukis), Japanese pigs, and Madagascan cats (i.e. the fossa, Cryptoprocta ferox). Later imported Eastern curiosities.
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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