Edward Waller (zoologist)

Edward Waller (1803–1873) was an Irish zoologist.[1]

Life

The son of Thomas Maunsell Waller and Margaret Vereker, Waller was born in Finnoe, County Tipperary. He was a landowner and barrister from County Tipperary.[1] He owned Finnoe House, Borrisokane, a summer home in County Tyrone.

He had a keen interest in marine biology, and was a member of the Belfast Dredging Committee with George Crawford Hyndman, George Dickie and John Gwyn Jeffreys; in 1857 the committee received two years of funding from the British Association, and used Waller’s yacht to dredge Belfast Lough and Strangford Lough.[1]

He had a large collection which he left to the National Museum of Ireland; this included the Circulus striatus, a new specimen which he found in Donegal.[1]

He was interested in Mollusca and Foraminifera 1867-68 and is honoured in the name Aclis walleri so named by Jeffreys in 1867.

His younger brother was John Francis Waller (1809-1894)[2]

Family

Waller married Mary Crossle on 3 August 1829 at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone. Mary was the only daughter of Henry Crossle of Avaline House in County Tyrone.[3]

Works

  • Waller, Edward 1867 Report on the Foraminifera obtained in the Shetland Seas. Report Brit. Assoc. (Dundee, 1867), 1867, pp. 441-446. London.
  • Waller, Edward 1868 Report on the Shetland Foraminifera for 1868. Report Brit. Assoc. (Norwich, 1868), 1868, pp. 340, 341. London.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "History". History of the Irish & British Marine Molluscan Collections. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  2. ↑ Source citation for Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22
  3. ↑ Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925


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