Gideon Mantell
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Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in
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166 High Street, Lewes, the home of Gideon Mantell
Sketch of Tilgate Quarry with Gideon Mantell overseeing the uncovering of fossils
Illustration of fossil Iguanodon teeth with a modern iguana jaw shown beneath them, from Mantell's 1825 paper describing Iguanodon.
Walter Mantell
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Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell was a 19th-century New Zealand naturalist, politician, and land purchase commissioner. He was a founder and first secretary of the New Zealand Institute, and a collector
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…moved to Clapham Common in South London, where he continued his work as a doctor. Mary Mantell left her husband in 1839. That same year, Gideon's son Walter emigrated to New Zealand. Walter later sent his father some important fossils from New Zealand. Gideon's daughter, Hannah, died in 1840. In 1841 he…
Mantell in c.1870