Nicholas Aylward Vigors

(1785 c.-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Vigors, N. A. (Nicholas Alyward), 1785-1840 NRA: Vigors Nicholas Aylward (1785-1840) Zoologist DNB: Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1785/6-1840), zoological administrator and quinarian LBT ID: NiVigor1840 VIAF ID: 40162259 LOC ID: nb2008002731	B/BAP: 1785 DIED: 1840-10-26
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, he served in the Peninsular War, was an Irish MP for Carlow (1832-35, 1837-40), and published papers on zoology.
REFERENCES TO Nicholas Aylward Vigors: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 1: ¶ 26 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 17