Henry Doubleday - Buttercross Lane, Epping, Essex, UK
N 51° 42.020 E 000° 06.763
31U E 300485 N 5731655
This blue plaque, placed by Epping UDC to Henry Doubleday, is located in a small ally that rune north west from Epping High Street. The plaque is on the north east side of the alley.
Waymark Code: WMKYFX
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/15/2014
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The plaque, that is poorly installed, tells us:
Epping UDC
Henry Doubleday
1808 - 1875
The Naturalist and
Lepidopterist, lived in
the original grocery
shop on this
site
The site is now a bank.
Wikipedia tells us about Doubleday:
Henry Doubleday (1 July 1808 – 29 June 1875) was an English entomologist and ornithologist.
Henry Doubleday was the eldest son of Quaker and grocer Benjamin Doubleday and his wife Mary of Epping, Essex. He and his brother Edward Doubleday spent their childhood collecting natural history specimens in Epping Forest. He lived at the same time as his cousin Henry Doubleday (1810-1902) the scientist and horticulturist. There is a blue plaque to him at the corner of High St and Buttercross Lane, Epping.
He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, Synonymic List of the British Lepidoptera (1847–1850). He named a number of new species of moth, including Pigmy Footman, Ashworth's Rustic and the Marsh Oblique-barred. His moth collection remains intact at the Natural History Museum.