Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell

Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (20 June 1877 – 8 November 1918), the biologist, physician and author, was the only son of the architect Herbert Spurrell and Harriet Rebecca Blaxland. He was a nephew of the archaeologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a member of the Spurrell family of Norfolk.

A student of Gustav Mann, Spurrell went on to discover and classify fish, reptiles and frogs from the Gold Coast and South America, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Among the species named after him are Spurrell's Free-tailed Bat and Spurrell's Woolly Bat.

During the First World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps; he died of pneumonia at Alexandria, Egypt, on 8 November 1918.[1]

He was also the author of a number of books, both scientific and fictional:

References

  1. "RAMC profile of: Herbert George Flaxman SPURRELL M.A., M.B., B.Ch.". RAMC in the Great War. Retrieved 26 February 2016.

Obituary, The British Medical Journal, 30 November 1918

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