John Thomas Quekett
English microscopist and histologist
John Thomas Quekett (11 August 1815 – 20 August 1861) was an English microscopist and histologist.
Quekett studied medicine at the London Hospital in 1831. He became a licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
In 1839, along with his brother Edwin John Quekett) co-founded the Royal Microscopical Society. Quekett served as the society's secretary from 1841 to 1860. In 1843 he was appointed assistant conservator of the Hunterian Museum, London, and in 1856 conservator of the museum and professor of histology on the retirement of professor Richard Owen.
He is the namesake of the Quekett Microscopical Club, established in 1865.
Biography
Quekett, born at Langport, Somerset, on 11 August 1815, was the youngest son of William Quekett and Mary, daughter of John Bartlett. The father was at Cockermouth grammar school with William and Christopher Wordsworth, and from 1790 till his death in 1842 was master of Langport grammar school. He educated his sons at home, and each of them was encouraged to collect specimens in some branch of natural history.
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