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He was the second son of James Sowerby. George was educated at home under private tutors, and afterwards assisted his father in the production of illustrated works on natural history.
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He was the second son of James Sowerby. George was educated at home under private tutors, and afterwards assisted his father in the production of illustrated works on natural history.
One of his first works was the cataloguing of the collection of the Earl of Tankerville. He also dealt in shells and natural history objects, his place of business being first in King Street, Covent Garden, from which he removed to Regent Street, and finally to Great Russell Street. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society on 5 March 1811.
He died at Hanley Road, Hornsey, on 26 July 1854.
George"s son Henry was born in Kensington on 28 March 1825. He was educated at Bickerdike"s school, Kentish Town, and University College, Gower Street.
From 1843 to 1852 he was assistant curator/librarian to the Linnean Society. He went out to Australia in 1854, and became draughtsman at the Melbourne University, and subsequently teacher of drawing in the state schools.
During the last twenty years of his life he devoted himself to gold mining.
He died near Melbourne on 15 September 1891, having married, in April 1847, Mission Annie Faulkner. He wrote for Reeve"s popular handbooks ‘Popular Mineralogy,’ London, 1850, and illustrated various books such as Flora Homoeopathica of Edward Hamilton which appeared in 1852-1853.
Many species were first described by Sowerby I, for example
Lottia gigantea
Diodora calyculata
Diodora ruepellii.
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