John Traherne Moggridge (8 March 1842 – 24 November 1874) was a British botanist, entomologist, and arachnologist.
A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he was known as a keen naturalist with great observational skills,[1] as well as his paintings and illustrations.
[3] He was a correspondent of Charles Darwin,[4] who cited his work in his books Fertilisation of Orchids and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.
His father, Matthew Moggridge, was a naturalist and geologist, a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological and Zoological Societies, while his mother, Fanny Moggridge, was the daughter of Lewis Weston Dillwyn, a naturalist and member of parliament.
[5][6] John attended King's School, Sherborne (now known as Sherborne School) in Dorset and in 1861 enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, but health problems interrupted his studies, causing him to relocate to the warmer climate of Menton, France, in the Provence region of southern France.