Samuel Stutchbury

Samuel Stutchbury was an English naturalist and geologist, born in London in 1798, the son of a gauging instrument maker. In 1820 he became assistant conservator at the Hunterian Museum and in 1821 an associate of the Linnean Society, and in 1824 he helped Gideon Mantell identify the teeth of Iguanodon by recognising their resemblance to those of an iguana he had prepared. He sailed as zoologist on a Pacific pearl fishery expedition in 1825, and from 1831 to 1850 he was curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution, where with Henry Riley he co-discovered Thecodontosaurus, announced in 1836 as the fourth dinosaur genus to be named. He became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1841, and from 1850 to 1855 he mapped about 32,000 square miles of eastern Australia as a geological surveyor. He died in Bristol in 1859.