Richard Parnell

Richard Parnell FRSE MWS (4 March 1814–28 October 1882) was a British physician as well as an amateur zoologist, ichthyologist and agrostologist.

[1] He was born at Bramford Speke in Devon in 1810 the son of John Ratcliffe Parnell (1774-1826).

He finished his medical training with postgraduate study in London and Paris.

[3] In 1837 (aged 27) he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Sir William Jardine.

[4] From April 1839 well into 1840 he collected specimens in Jamaica and the West Indies, taking extensive notes and making many illustrations.