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Mr. T. C. EYTON. 



Tlioraas Campbell Eyton, of Eyton and Walford Manor, 

 Shropshire, was the eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas 

 Eyton, of Eyton, by his marriage with Elizabeth, eldest 

 daughter of Major-General Donald Campbell, and was 

 born in the year 1809. He was educated at St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, was a magistrate and Deputy-lieutenant 

 for the county of Salop, and formerly held a commission in 

 the South Salop Yeomanry Cavalry. He was a member of 

 the Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies. His 

 museum at Eyton Hall contained a large collection of birds 

 and bird-skeletons, of which, we believe, the types and 

 more important specimens are now in the British Museum. 

 Mr. Eyton's name is well known to ornithologists as the 

 author of a ' History of the rarer British Birds ' (1836), 

 and in the same year ' A Catalogue of British Birds ' ; a 

 ' Monograph of the Duck Tribe' (1838) ; 'Osteologia Avium' 

 (1861) ; and other works and papers, including two in ' The 

 Ibis' for 1859 and 1861. He died at his residence, Eyton 

 Hall, near Wellington, Shropshire, at the end of October 

 1880. 



