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SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY EGERTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 13 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:PHILIP DE MALPAS See also:GREY See also:EGERTON  , See also:Bart . (28o6-1882), See also:English palaeontologist, was See also:born on thel3th of See also:November 18o6, the son of the 9th See also:baronet . He was educated at See also:Eton and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1828 . While at See also:college his See also:interest in See also:geology was aroused by the lectures of W . See also:Buckland, and by his acquaintance with W . D . See also:Conybeare . Subsequently when travelling in See also:Switzerland with See also:Lord See also:Cole (afterwards 3rd See also:earl of See also:Enniskillen) they were introduced to Prof . L . See also:Agassiz at Neufchatel, and determined to make a See also:special study of fossil fishes . During the course of fifty years they gradually gathered together two of the largest and finest of private collections—that of See also:Sir See also:Philip See also:Grey See also:Egerton being at Oulton See also:Park, Tarporley, See also:Cheshire . He described the structure and See also:affinities of numerous See also:species in the publications of the See also:Geological Society of See also:London, the Geological See also:Magazine and the Decades of the Geological Survey; and in recognition of his services the See also:Wollaston See also:medal was awarded to him in 1873 by the Geological Society .

He was elected F.R.S. in 1831, and was a trustee of the See also:

British Museum . As a member of See also:Parliament he represented the See also:city of See also:Chester in 183o, the See also:southern See also:division of Cheshire from 2835 until 1868, and the western division from 2868 to 2882 . He died in London on the 6th of See also:April 1881 . His collection of fossil fishes is now in the British Museum .

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