thumb|Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing had "a slight physique" and "a certain whimsical humour". Educated in London and Oxford, he only took to natural history in his thirties, having worked as a teacher until then. Although an ordained Anglican priest, Stebbing promoted [[Darwinism in a number of popular works, and was banned from preaching as a result. His scientific works mostly concerned crustaceans, especially the Amphipoda and Isopoda, the most notable being his work on the amphipods of the Challenger expedition.

His zoological author abbreviation is Stebbing.

Biography

thumb|right|Caricature of [[Samuel Wilberforce, known as "Soapy Sam", from an 1869 issue of Vanity Fair: Wilberforce ordained Stebbing in 1859, but became a staunch opponent of Darwinism, while Stebbing became a fervent supporter.]]

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing was born on 6 February 1835 in Euston Square, London, the seventh of thirteen to a clergyman and the editor of the Athenaeum, Henry Stebbing, and his wife, Mary Griffin.

Evolution and religion

Having trained as an evangelical Anglican, Stebbing expected to be a staunch opponent of Charles Darwin's recently published theory of evolution by natural selection. and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1908.

  • Hyale stebbingi <small>Chevreux, 1888</small> (Amphipoda: Hyalidae)
  • Parapodascon stebbingi <small>(Giard & Bonnier, 1895)</small> (Isopoda: Podasconidae)
  • Argissa stebbingi <small>Bonnier, 1896</small>, a synonym of Argissa hamatipes <small>(Norman, 1869)</small> (Amphipoda: Argissidae)
  • Phronima stebbingii <small>Vosseler, 1901</small> (Amphipoda: Phronimidae)
  • Metapenaeus stebbingi <small>(Nobili, 1904)</small> (Decapoda: Penaeidae)
  • Protellopsis stebbingii <small>Pearse, 1908</small> (Amphipoda: Caprellidae)
  • Sphyrapus stebbingi <small>Richardson, 1911</small> (Tanaidacea: Sphyrapidae)
  • Macropisthopus stebbingi <small>K. A. Barnard, 1916</small> (Amphipoda: Ampithoidae)
  • Carpias stebbingi <small>(Monod, 1933)</small> (Isopoda: Janiridae)
  • Pardaliscoides stebbingi <small>Ledoyer, 1970</small> (Amphipoda: Pardaliscidae)

Publications

  • (published in three parts, 1900, 1914, 1920)
  • (in English)

See also

  • Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing

References

  • Taxa named by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing at Wikidata