The Reverend William Buckland D.D. F.R.S. Canon of Christ Church and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford 1833. Dean of Westminster 1845. Composite photo of his grave (left) at Islip church where he was Rector (doors middle) and (right) the 2008 blue plaque on his house. Buckland was an influential paleontologist at the start of the 19th Century who described science's first dinosaur. His works brought the prehistoric world into prominence in Britain. He believed he had found direct evidence of the flood. He was quite eccentric,and some like Darwin,found him a little too keen on celebrity. A tuberculous growth at the base of the skull reputedly caused mental illness in later life. He lived with his wife at the Rectory in Islip between 1845 and 1856. He was famous for his household menagerie,including a bear Tiglath Pileser who accompanied him on local rides | |
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