Edward Alfred Minchin FRS FLS FZS (26 February 1866 – 30 September 1915) was a British zoologist who specialised in the study of sponges and Protozoa.

[1] He was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho!, and the Bishop Cotton Boys School, Bangalore, India.

[4] Lankester had long lobbied for a permanent Chair of Protozoology at the University of London and in 1906 the position was finally created, associated with the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

[13] Minchin was encouraged to stand for election to the Royal Society by E Ray Lankester, who championed his work on tsetse flies to support the application.

[3] In his obituaries Minchin was praised for the quality of his work, the depth of his knowledge, and was described as the first great British protozoologist.