Francis Arthur Bather FRS[1] (17 February 1863, in Richmond upon Thames – 20 March 1934) was a British palaeontologist, geologist and malacologist.
His father, Arthur Henry Bather, who was deaf, was a clerk in the office of the Accountant-General for the Navy.
Bather was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society, of which he also served as president.
[4] He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1928.
[5] In 1932 Bather was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.