Ernest Edmund Molyneux Royds (1848–92)

Banker, magistrate, and rabbit and poultry fancier. Of Greenhill, Rochdale, Lancashire. Provided rabbits for Francis Galton’s transfusion experiments, and judged poultry shows.

Sources

BMD (Birth index

Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (RG11/4109/45)

Correspondence vol. 18, letter from Francis Galton, 8 April 1870

Galton 1871, p. 405.