Thomas Croxen Archer

Thomas Croxen Archer FRSE FSA FRSSA (1817 – 19 February 1885) was a British botanist, and the first Director of the National Museum of Scotland, a post he held from 1864 until his death in 1885. The standard author abbreviation Archer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Thomas Croxen Archer
Born
Hardingstone, Northamptonshire
Known forDirector of the National Museum of Scotland
Spouse(s)Mary Eleanor Salmon
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Archer

Early life and education

Archer was born in 1817 in Hardingstone in Northamptonshire.[2]

Career

From 1842 to 1856, he worked as a customs officer in Liverpool. He studied botany at the medical school in Liverpool and at Queen's College there, and went on to be Professor of Botany at the college.[3]

Archer was Superintendent and then Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland, from 1860 to 1864.[4]

He was the first Director of the National Museum of Scotland, a post he held from 1864 until his death in 1885.[4]

He was a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts from 1861 (and its President in 1874), the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (President for 1861–62), and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Personal life

On 27 December 1841, he married Mary Eleanor Salmon at St. Paul's, Deptford, London.[5]

In 1861, he was living at 46 Gilmore Place, with his wife Mary Eleanor Archer, seven children and two other people.

In 1881, he was living at 5 West Newington Terrace, with two of his children and five other people.

References
  1. IPNI.  Archer.
  2. "Join Ancestry". search.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
  3. http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
  4. "150 years old and still going strong!". National Museum of Scotland. 2011-10-21. Retrieved 2013-10-09.
  5. "Ancestry - Sign Up Now!". trees.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-30.
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