John Frederick Whitlie Quekett (b. London, 1849, d. Durban 5 July 1913) was a conchologist and museum curator who worked in South Africa, having emigrated there in 1871.
Quekket was born in London in 1849, his father was Professor John Thomas Quekett, after whom the Microscopy Club, is named,[1] and his mother was Isabella Mary Anne Scott.
at this time he was employed by the civil service of Natal from 1889 and worked for its Forestry Department from its inauguration in 1891.
He specialised in conchology, and alongside H.C. Burnup, he undertook many field trips to collect shells.
Quekket and Burnup were the first conchologists to retrieve shells from the intestines of the musselcracker seabream (Sparodon durbanensis).