Lovell Augustus Reeve

Lovell Augustus Reeve (19 April 1814 – 18 November 1865) was an English conchologist and publisher.

After attending school at Stockwell, he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to Mr. Graham, a local grocer.

At the end of his apprenticeship Reeve visited Paris, where he read a paper on the classification of Mollusca before the Academy of Sciences.

Using profits made by the sale of Dutch Governor-General of the Moluccas Van Ryder's collection from the Moluccas, which he purchased at Rotterdam, and with the help of friends, he opened a shop in King William Street, Strand, London.

[1] Reeve died at Covent Garden, 18 November 1865, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.

Lovell Augustus Reeve