Hugh Edwin Strickland ( 1811 - 1853 )

Birth: Righton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England (02 March 1811) Death: On a railway line between Retford and Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (13 or 14 September 1853) Education: MA (Oriel College, Oxford) Career: Deputy Reader in Geology, University of Oxford; knocked down and killed instantly by an oncoming express train while examining a new railway cutting of the Sheffield, Manchester and Lincolnshire Railway.