Steve Etches

Etches in the workshop at The Etches Collection in Kimmeridge, Dorset
View of the main gallery in The Etches Collection

Steve Etches, MBE (born in 1949) is an English plumber, fossil collector and preparator in Kimmeridge, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. From an early age on, Etches began to find, collect and restore the fossils he found on the Jurassic Coast. His collection is now housed in a museum called The Etches Collection which was purpose-built, both to house the collection and to replace the deteriorating local village hall. Etches has won many prizes for his palaeontology and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in 2014.[1][2][3][4] In 2017, he was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Southampton.[5] On 22 April 2019, he appeared on the natural history podcast Trees A Crowd with David Oakes.[6]

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  6. ^ Trees A Crowd