William John Swainson, Botanist Naturalist FRS, FLS 1789 - 1855 Gravesite Lower Hutt New Zealand

William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 - 6 December 1855[1]), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist.
Swainson remarried in 1840 to Ann Grasby, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1841. Two of their daughters were married in 1863: Edith Stanway Swainson married Arthur Halcombe, and Lucelle Frances Swainson married Richmond Beetham.[8][9] Swainson was involved in property management and natural history-related publications from 1841 to 1855, and forestry-related investigations in Tasmania, New South Wales, and Victoria from 1851 to 1853. Swainson died at Fern Grove, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, on 6 December 1855.
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