Edward Thomas Booth
1842–90
Ornithologist. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Collected specimens of birds of Great Britain, and stuffed them himself. The collection was eventually housed in the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton, and bequeathed to the town on Booth’s death.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
Ibis 6th ser. 2 (1890): 271–2.
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
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