Thomas Roscoe Speech Stebbing

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Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (born February 6, 1835 in London , † July 8, 1926 in Royal Turnbridge Wells ) was a British zoologist and clergyman.

He was the son of clergyman Henry Stebbing (1799-1883), editor of the Athenaeum . Stebbing attended King's College School and studied classical languages ​​at King's College London with a BA degree in 1855. He then studied law and history at Oxford with a Master of Arts degree in 1859. In the same year he was ordained an Anglican clergyman in Oxford. He was a fellow (1860 to 1868) and tutor at Worcester College, Oxford, married Mary Anne Saunders, who was a good botanist and draftsman herself, in 1867, and became a teacher at Torquay, Devon. Around the same time he began to be interested in natural history. In 1877 he moved to Turnbridge Wells to be closer to London. Since he was financially independent, he gave up his teaching profession at this time in favor of academic activity and writing.

He was a specialist in small crustaceans, especially Amphipoda ( amphipods ) and edited the relevant collections of the Challenger expedition . He wrote the section on amphipods of the official report of the expedition, which became fundamental to the taxon system (and contained an annotated bibliography of 600 pages). He also wrote popular science works in which he defended Darwinism early on . This brought him into conflict with the Anglican Church, which forbade him to preach and never offered him a parish. Samuel Wilberforce , who consecrated him at Oxford, was a prominent opponent of Darwinism in the Anglican Church. He later also became increasingly hostile to religious dogmas, not just the literal truth of Genesis, the existence of miracles and prophecies, but also the Holy Trinity, the divinity of Jesus, and moral teachings of the Church.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1896) and the Linnean Society, whose gold medal he received in 1908.

Fonts

  • Essays on Darwinism, London 1871
  • A History of Crustacea. Recent Malacostraca, London 1893, Archives
  • The naturalist of Cumbrae; a true story, being the life of David Robertson, London 1891, online
  • Report on the Amphipoda collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76, Zoology, 29, 1888, pp. 1-1737, pls 1-210.
  • Revision of Amphipoda (continued). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 4, 1899, pp. 205-211.
  • On crustacea brought by Dr. Willey from the South Seas. Willey's Zoological Results, 5, 1900, pp. 605-690
  • Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. In: Franz Eilhard Schulze, Das Tierreich, 21, Berlin: Friedländer 1906, pp. 1–806, Archives
  • Cumacea (Sympoda), in: Das Tierreich, Berlin: Friedländer 1913, Archives
  • Faith in Fetters, London 1919
  • Plain Speaking, London 1926

literature

  • Eric L. Wells, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
  • Eric Wells, Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  • WT Calman, TRR Stebbing-1835-1926, in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 101B (1926), xxx-xxxii
personal data
SURNAME Stebbing, Thomas Roscoe speech
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1926
Place of death Royal Turnbridge Wells