Person McCoy; Sir; Frederick (1823 - 1899) McCoy Frederick Sir 1823 - 1899 Male Dublin, Ireland 1823 Maritima', his house at Brighton Beach, near Melbourne, Australia 13 or 15 or 16 May 1899

Melbourne, Australia (1880)

Education: Dublin, Cambridge. DSc (Cambridge) Career: Gave up medicine in favour of natural science; worked on Geological Survey of Ireland; Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Queen's College, Belfast; Professor of Natural Sciences, University of Melbourne; Government Palaeontologist; established the National museum of Natural History, Melbourne, and was its Director Honours: CMG 1886; KCMG 1891 Memberships: FGS; HMCPS Son of Dr Simon McCoy of Dublin Fellow 03/06/1880 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 43-45 signed by H W Notes: WWW gives death date as 15 May 1899, TR/BR give 16 May 1899. References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1823 - 13 or 15 or 16 May 1899 NA5819 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 87da9f4f-fd44-4a48-bac0-6a5fa35d660a