The Sowerby family (/ˈsoʊərbi,ˈsaʊərbi/)[1] was a British family of several generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists active from the late 18th century to the mid twentieth century.[2][3]
James Sowerby (1757–1822)
James De Carle Sowerby (1787–1871)
James Sowerby (1815–1834)
William Sowerby (1827–1906)
Joseph Sowerby (1829–ca.1871)
Rev. Arthur Sowerby (1857–?)
Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885–1954)
George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854)
George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884)
Charlotte Caroline Sowerby (1820–1865)
George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921)
Charles Edward Sowerby (1795–1842)
John Edward Sowerby (1825-1870)
Family grave of George Brettingham Sowerby I, Charlotte Caroline Sowerby and George Brettingham Sowerby II in Highgate Cemetery
The three George Sowerbys produced major works on molluscs and their systematics. Together, they introduced numerous (sometimes the number 5000 is mentioned) taxonomic names. Because all three of the G.B Sowerbys published extensively on the subject of conchology, it is not easy even for professional taxonomists to unravel which of the three "G.B. Sowerbys" is meant in a particular citation when the numbering system G.B. Sowerby I, II, or III is not used. Even when a date is provided, this kind of attribution is not obvious: e.g. "Sowerby, 1870" can refer to either G.B. Sowerby II or G.B. Sowerby III.[4]
The scientific and artistic contributions of the family extended well into the 20th century. Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885–1954), James Sowerby's great-great-grandson, explored the geography and natural history of China. One of James' grandsons, John George Sowerby (1850–1914), was an illustrator and glass-worker whose work was exhibited in the British Royal Academy, and who directed Ellison Glass Works Ltd, which during the 1880s was the world's largest producer of pressed glass. John G. Sowerby's daughter Katherine Githa (1876–1970) became a noted playwright, and Millicent Sowerby (1878–1967) was a painter and illustrator known for her children's book illustrations.[5]
^Pointon, G. E. (1983). BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 227. ISBN 0-19-282745-6.
^David M. Damkaer (2002). The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History. American Philosophical Society. pp. 142–. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.
^Wilfrid Blunt; William Thomas Stearn (1950). "Kilburn, Sowerby, and Sydenham Edwards". The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History. Courier Corporation. pp. 189–194. ISBN 978-0-486-27265-8.
^Petit, Richard E (2009). "George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and Molluscan taxa". Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1.
^Sara Gray (2009). "Sowerby, Amy Millicent". The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. pp. 246–. ISBN 978-0-7188-3084-7.
The Sowerbyfamily (/ˈsoʊərbi, ˈsaʊərbi/) was a British family of several generations of naturalists, illustrators, botanists, and zoologists active from...
James De Carle Sowerby (1787–1871), George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854) and Charles Edward Sowerby (1795–1842), the Sowerbyfamily of naturalists...
(2009). "George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and Molluscan taxa". Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218. Sowerbyfamily v t e v t e...
John George Sowerby (1849–1914) was an English painter and illustrator from Gateshead, and director of Ellison Glass Works, the Sowerbyfamily business,...
abbreviation J.C.Sowerby is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Sowerbyfamily Cleevely, R. J. (2004). "Sowerby, James De...
remains a usable and readable resource to this day. Sowerbyfamily Woodward, Bernard Barham (1898). "Sowerby, George Brettingham" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary...
Arthur de Carle Sowerby (8 July 1885 – 16 August 1954; Chinese: 苏柯仁; pinyin: Sū Ke Ren) was a British naturalist, explorer, writer, and publisher in China...
Caroline Sowerby (1820–1865) (sometimes C.C. Sowerby) was a 19th-century British scientific illustrator and a member of the extensive Sowerbyfamily of...
17 January 1825. Part of the Sowerbyfamily, he was eldest son of Charles Edward Sowerby and grandson of James Sowerby. John inherited a taste for botanical...
becomes more spirited and less cantankerous and befriends her maid, Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about Lilias Craven, who would spend hours in a private...
Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist. He was the second son of James Sowerby. George...
Sowerby. Sowerby was born in Gateshead, England in 1878 to John G. Sowerby, artist and grandson of naturalist James Sowerby, and Amy Margaret Sowerby...
Malacologists of the 19th century including Kiener, Reeve, Küster & Kobelt and Sowerby treated all muricoid forms as belonging to Murex. This is the main reason...
England, into the Sowerbys, a glass-making family. Her father, John G. Sowerby, was an artist and grandson of naturalist James Sowerby, and her mother was...
Brough Sowerby is a village and civil parish in the Eden district of Cumbria, England. It is located 22.3 miles southeast of the town of Penrith. According...
Africotriton crebriliratus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010. Sowerby, G. B. III. (1903). Mollusca...
Joseph Davidson Sowerby was a British Chief Constable, and served in the Plymouth Borough Police from 1892 to 1917. Sowerby was born in Everton, Liverpool...
influential publication that had illustrations by James Sowerby and other members of the Sowerbyfamily. A Plain and Easy Account of the British Ferns (1860)...
Helicina platychila is on the page 219, pl. 3 figs 11a-b. Guadeloupe. Sowerby G. B. (1847). "Monograph of the genus Helicina". Thesaurus conchyliorum...
mollusk within the family Turbinellidae. Subspecies Vasum truncatum triangulare (E. A. Smith, 1902) Vasum truncatum truncatum (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) The...
tumid. Volvarina fauna (G.B. Sowerby I, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010. Sowerby, G. B. II. (1846). Monograph...
Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. G.B. Sowerby III, Descriptions of fifteen...
mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. There are two subspecies known : Fissurella oriens fulvescens G.B. Sowerby I, 1835 : found...
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