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Family of Edwards Crisp and Harriet Copping

Husband: Edwards Crisp (1806-1882)
Wife: Harriet Copping (c. 1830-1906)
Marriage 3 Mar 1857 Glasgow, Scotland

Husband: Edwards Crisp

Name: Edwards Crisp
Sex: Male
Father: Edwards Crisp (1781-1829)
Mother: Mary Mayhew (1784-1876)
Birth 10 Dec 1806 Rendlesham, Suffolk
Baptism 16 Dec 1806 (age 0) Rendlesham, Suffolk
Death 15 Nov 1882 (age 75) 16 Beaufort Street, Chelsea
Burial 21 Nov 1882 Brompton Cemetery

Wife: Harriet Copping

Name: Harriet Copping
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth c. 1830 Rendlesham, Suffolk
Death 17 Aug 1906 (age 75-76) Putney, Surrey

Note on Husband: Edwards Crisp - shared note

MRCS; Member of Pathological Society; Fellow of Medical Society, London; sometime Physician Metropolitan Dispensary, Fore Street, London; author of various medical works; editor of London Medical Examiner.

Source: Source: Visitation of England and Wales Volume 13

 

General practitioner in London from 1830. Practised as a physician in London, 1849–82. Wrote a number of books on medical subjects; published many papers on medicine and zoology. Built up a museum of comparative and pathological anatomy of over 5000 specimens.

Source: Charles Darwin Correspondence

http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?class=name;term=Crisp%2C%20Edwards

 

Article: Dr. Edwards Crisp: a forgotten medical scientist. by J Dobson, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1952;7(4):384-400.

 

In keeping with the amazing zeal of Victorian naturalists, Edwards Crisp in 1855 recorded in

detail the sizes and appearances of 334 spleens from mammals, birds, fishes and reptiles, including those from an English vulture, a rock kangaroo, an opossum and a puff adder.

Source: Historical Review, The Spleen, in British Journal of Haematology, 2002, 117, 265–274