Background
Thomas Croxen Archer was born in 1817 in Hardingstone in Northamptonshire.
Thomas Croxen Archer was born in 1817 in Hardingstone in Northamptonshire.
He studied botany at the medical school in Liverpool and at Queen"s College there, and went on to be Professor of Botany at the college.
From 1842-1856, he worked as a customs officer in Liverpool. Archer was Superintendent and then Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland, from 1860-1864. He was the first Director of the National Museum of Scotland, a post he held from 1864 until his death in 1885.
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He was a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts from 1861 (and its President in 1874), the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.