Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing had "a slight physique" and "a certain whimsical humour".[1]

The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing FRS FLS (6 February 1835, London – 8 July 1926, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a British zoologist, who described himself as "a serf to natural history, principally employed about Crustacea".[2] Educated in London and Oxford, he only took to natural history in his thirties, having worked as a teacher until then. Although an ordained Anglican priest, Stebbing promoted Darwinism in a number of popular works, and was banned from preaching as a result. His scientific works mostly concerned crustaceans, especially the Amphipoda and Isopoda, the most notable being his work on the amphipods of the Challenger expedition.

His zoological author abbreviation is Stebbing.[3]

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  2. ^ Eric L. Mills (September 2004). "Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38300. Retrieved 10 September 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Parawaldeckia". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 11 October 2022.