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Charles Davies Sherborn
Charles Davies Sherborn (30 June 1861 – 22 June 1942) was an English taxonomist. The eldest son of Charles William Sherborn, an engraver and member of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers, and his wife Hannah (née Simpson), Sherborn was a descendant of the Sherborn family who had owned Fawns Manor in Bedfont since the 17th century. In the course of researching his family history, he came into contact with William Sherborn, his fourth cousin once removed, still in possession of the Manor, and on William's death in 1912 (the same year as Charles William Sherborn's death, making Charles Davies Sherborn the rightful inheritor) came into ownership of the Manor, although he never took up residence there, preferring to remain in Fulham. On Charles Davies Sherborn's own death in 1942, the Manor was inherited by his nephew Ronald Thorne Sherborn, father of the conservationist Derek Sherborn.
Having left school, Sherborn was employed at a bookseller's, then a Jermyn Street tailor's. In 1883, he was asked to assist the geologist Thomas Rupert Jones to assist with papers on microscopic fossils known as foraminifera. By 1887, they had published three papers, with Sherborn providing the illustrations.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8646534/Charles-Davies-Sherborn-the-Natural-History-Museums-magpie-with-a-card-index-mind.html〕 In 1888, whilst working as a secretary at the Middlesex Hospital, Sherborn began work at the Natural History Museum alongside Arthur Smith Woodward, preparing and cleaning fossils; he soon gave up his hospital job to focus on natural history. He was invited to collaborate on a biography of Sir Richard Owen, founder of the Natural History Museum; Sherborn was required to sort through his papers, which had been left, in piles twelve feet high, in a cowshed exposed to rats and to the elements. The effort involved, despite Sherborn's great pleasure in the task, caused a breakdown in his health that left him incapacitated for three years.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8646534/Charles-Davies-Sherborn-the-Natural-History-Museums-magpie-with-a-card-index-mind.html〕 Sherborn never married; although engaged for ten years, he concluded that his sporadic income would be insufficient to provide for a wife and family.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8646534/Charles-Davies-Sherborn-the-Natural-History-Museums-magpie-with-a-card-index-mind.html〕
Sherborn wrote ''Index Animalium'', an 11 volume, 9,000 page work that catalogued the 444,000 names of every living and extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850. Sherborn was the first president of the Society for the History of Natural History, 1936–1942.
In recognition of his endeavours he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Oxford University.〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8646534/Charles-Davies-Sherborn-the-Natural-History-Museums-magpie-with-a-card-index-mind.html〕
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