Charles Walter De Vis

Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829 – 30 April 1915)[1] was an English zoologist,[1] ornithologist,[2] herpetologist,[1][3] and botanist.

[2] De Vis gained a BA from Magdelene College, Cambridge in 1849, became a deacon in 1852, and was rector of Breane, Somerset, from 1855 to 1859.

[4] He gave up his ecclesiastical functions to devote himself to science, initially in England then after 1870 in Australia.

[5] De Vis also worked in the scientific field of herpetology, and he described many new species of reptiles.

[1][3] De Vis is commemorated in the scientific name of an Australian venomous snake, Denisonia devisi.