Eton College (did not graduate) Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for
Founding the British Ornithological Union
Spouses
Edith Elwes
(m. 1873; died 1875)
Alice Mary Chaplin
(m. 1891)
Children
2
Awards
Linnean Medal (1918)
Scientific career
Fields
Lepidopterology, entomology, ornithology
Author abbrev. (botany)
Godm.
Frederick DuCane GodmanDCL FRS FLS FGS FRGS FES FZS MRI FRHS (15 January 1834 – 19 February 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. Along with Osbert Salvin, he is remembered for studying the fauna and flora of Central America.
Godman collected Iznik, Hispano-Moresque and early Iranian pottery. His collection of more than 600 pieces was donated to the British Museum through the will of his younger daughter, Catherine, who died in 1982.
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