Frederick Erasmus Edwards FGS (1 October 1799 – 15 October 1875) was a British law clerk in the

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and an amateur geologist, known for his collection of Eocene Tertiary Mollusca. F. E. Edwards, with

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and five other naturalists, founded the London Clay Club in 1836 and was also a founding member of the

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in 1847. For more than forty years he was a law clerk in the Court of Chancery, working as chief clerk for two

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, Wingfield and Blunt, and two Vice-Chancellors, Sir

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and Sir

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. Edwards devoted his leisure time to the collection and study of fossil Mollusca.

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1799 births 1875 deaths Amateur geologists English geologists Fellows of the Geological Society of London {{Geologist-stub