Seth Lister Mosley
Seth Lister Mosley (1847–1929) was an English naturalist, ornithologist and curator who lived in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Born into a working-class family, he had little in the way of formal education. He initially worked as a painter-decorator before becoming an independent professional naturalists in 1877,[1] going on to become one of the most prominent British naturalists in the late nineteenth century. He was an early advocate for bird conservation and wrote publicly against the shooting of birds for museum displays.[2]
He was one of Britain's first independent museologists and visited a substantial number of museums across the country (including the Natural History Museum, London, observing their natural history collections, and providing educational resources.[3] He was also a lecturer for the National Secular Society.
He ran several private museums in Huddersfield before being appointed curator of the collections at Huddersfield Technical College. He was appointed the Soppitt Curator by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union following the death of Henry Thomas Soppitt in 1899.[4] and became the first curator at Huddersfield's Tolson Museum in 1922.[5]
He was also the editor and primary contributor of several prominent national popular science publications including The Naturalist's Journal and theYoung Naturalist.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ Banham, Christopher (2009). "Natural History in the Periodical Literature of Victorian Working Class Boys". Childhood in the Past. 2 (1): 132–150. doi:10.1179/cip.2009.2.1.132. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ↑ Brooke, Alan. "Seth Lister Mosley and the Early Years of the Tolson Museum". undergroundhistories.wordpress.com. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ↑ Hilary Haigh, E.A. (1992). Huddersfield: A Most Handsome Town. Kirklees Cultural Services. ISBN 9780900746529.
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- ↑ Smith, Nathan (November 2020). "Provincial mycology and the legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899) (W. T. Stearn Prize 2019)". Archives of Natural History. 47 (2): 219–235. doi:10.3366/anh.2020.0650. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ↑ Hilary Haigh, E.A. (1992). Huddersfield: A Most Handsome Town. Kirklees Cultural Services. ISBN 9780900746529.
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- ↑ Mordavsky Caleb, Amanda (2007). (Re)creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 330. ISBN 1847182208.
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