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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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was issued (omitting vols.) for the purpose of binding the work 
in 1 vol. 
Mantell (Gideon Algernon), 1790-1852 
Dr. Gideon Mantell was born in 1790 in the parish of 
St. John-snb-Castro, Lewes, Sussex, his father being a 
shoemaker in good business, noted for his Whig principles. 
After receiving some education at private schools, he was 
articled to James Moore, a surgeon in Lewes, who ultimately 
took him into partnership. Mantell was successful in his 
profession, making midwifery a special study, but also devoted 
himself ardently to natural history. 
He is best known as a geologist and palaeontologist, on 
which subjects he wrote several able works principally 
relating to the South-east Counties of England, in addition 
to a number of Memoirs in the Transactions of the Royal, 
Linnean, and Geological Societies, of each of which he was a 
Fellow. He died November 10, 1852, and was buried in 
St. Michael’s Church, Lewes, where there is a brass tablet 
to his memory. 
1824. Outlines | of | The Natural History | of the | Environs of Lewes. | 
By Gideon Mantell, F.L.S. | ... Sussex Press : | John Baxter, 
High Street, Lewes. | mdcccxxiv. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. 24, with 3 pi. 
Birds at pp. 17-20. 
The above also occurs in the Appendix to Horsfield’s History 
of Lewes, 1 vol. 4to. Lewes : 1824. 
Maplet (John), ob. 1592 
Of Maplet we learn that he matriculated as a sizar of 
Queens’ College, Cambridge, in December 1560, proceeded 
B.A. in 1563-64, was a Fellow of Catherine Hall in August 
1564, and commenced M.A. in 1567. On November 26, 
1568, he was instituted, on the presentation of Sir Thomas 
Mildmay, to the Rectory of Great Leighs, Essex, which he 
exchanged for the Vicarage of Northall, now Northolt, 
Middlesex, in 1576. He seems to have died in September 
1592. 
