Edwin Brown (1818/19–76)

Bank manager and naturalist. Employee of the Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, 1834; manager, 1865. Member of the Entomological Society of London, 1849; fellow of the Geological Society of London and the Royal Geographical Society; member of the Botanical Society of London. A life-long friend and patron of Henry Walter Bates; Bates’s letters to him from the Amazon were published in the Zoologist, 1849–58.