William Lucas Distant
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British entomologist
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William Lucas Distant's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of Oxford
- PhD Entomology Imperial College London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Lucas Distant was an English entomologist. Biography Early years Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distant and his wife, Sarah Ann Distant . Following his father's death in 1867, a trip to the Malay Peninsula to visit his older brother, also named Alexander and a ship's captain, aroused his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana , a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. .
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