William Evans Hoyle

Dr William Evans Hoyle FRSE (28 January 1855 – 7 February 1926)[1] was a British zoologist.

A specialist in deep sea creatures, he worked on classification and illustrations from the Challenger expedition from 1882 to 1888.

[2] Hoyle authored many first descriptions of cephalopods, including (but not limited to) those tabled below.

He married twice: firstly in 1883 to Edith Isabel Sharp (d.1916); secondly in 1918 to Mrs Florence Ethel Mabel Hallett, a widow.

[3] There is a portrait of Hoyle in oils at the National Museum of Wales.