William Broderip

William John Broderip FRS (21 November 1789 – 27 February 1859) was an English lawyer and naturalist.

In co-operation with Sir Stamford Raffles he aided, in 1826, in the formation of the Zoological Society, of which he was one of the original fellows.

[2] He died in his chambers, 2 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, London, from an attack of serous apoplexy, on 27 February 1859.

Broderip's Account of the Manners of a Tame Beaver, published in the Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society,[3] affords an example of his tact as an observer and power as a writer.

from Ast to the end, including the whole of the articles relating to mammals, birds, reptiles, crustacea, mollusca, conchifera, pulmonata, &c.; Buffon, Brisson, &c., and zoology.