NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kirby, William, 1759-1850 NRA: Kirby William (1759-1850) Rector of Barham Entomologist DNB: Kirby, William (1759–1850), entomologist and naturalist LBT ID: WiKirby1850 VIAF ID: 5082911 LOC ID: n87143988 | B/BAP: 1759-09-18 DIED: 1850-07-04 |
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was rector of Barham, Suffolk
(1796); with William Spence he wrote Introduction to Entomology
(1815-26). | |
REFERENCES TO William Kirby: Robert Southey, “Memoir: At Bedminster,” July 1822 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
¶ 8 |