What's hit is history: Key Yorkshire bird specimens in the collections at Whitby Museum: a tribute to Thomas Stephenson

摘要

He was born in Whitby and his education, which commenced at Rev. Benjamin Richardson's establishment in Glaisdale, continued at the Rev. Thomas Irvine's academy in Ormesby, Middlesbrough, and was completed at the ancient and celebrated St. Peter's School in York. It was at Glaisdale and Ormesby that his interest in natural history commenced and continued throughout a long, well-filled and useful life. By profession Thomas was a solicitor, joining his father Mr Appleton Stephenson in the family practice located close to the Seamen's Institute in Haggersgate in 1854. After the death of his father Thomas continued the practice with his brother John Boyes Stephenson and until his own death he was Whitby's oldest practicing solicitor.