Richard Lydekker (1849–1915)

Naturalist and geologist. BA, natural sciences, Cambridge, 1872. Geological Survey of India, 1874–82. Keeper of palaeontology, British Museum of Natural History, 1882–96. Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, 1880; of the Geological Society of London, 1883. Author of works on geology, palaeontology, and zoology. JP for Hertfordshire. FRS 1894.