Edward Holt Eason (1915 – 1999) was a pre-eminent British myriapodologist, as well as being a medical doctor and farmer, who carried out extensive taxonomic research on centipedes.
During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in India and Burma.
In 1948 he married Vivian Haynes and began farming in the Cotswolds, where he raised horses and beef cattle, as well as extending a youthful interest in natural history into a lifelong study of the classification of centipedes.
As well as numerous scientific papers on centipede species from around the world, Eason wrote a 294-page monograph: Centipedes of the British Isles, published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1964.
In 1980 he received the Stamford Raffles Award, presented by the Zoological Society of London, for distinguished work on centipede taxonomy.