J. A. Moy-Thomas

James Alan Moy-Thomas (12 September 1908 - 29 February 1944) was a British palaeontological ichthyologist.

Son of Alan Moy-Thomas and his wife Gertrude, he was born in London. He had a younger brother Edward and an older sister Joan Caroline. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class degree in zoology in 1930[1]

He authored numerous papers on palaeontological ichthyology.

In 1933 he married Joy Mitchell in Wharfedale, Yorkshire.

In 1941 he was granted a Commission in the Special Duties Branch (i.e. intelligence) of the RAF.[2] His service number was 66643. He died in a motor vehicle accident in 1944[3] and was buried in Cambridge.[4] An obituary was published in The Times,[5] and another by Edwin Stephen Goodrich was published in Nature.[6]

The genus Jamoytius is named after him.

His brother Edward died later that year on active service in the Netherlands, during Operation Market Garden.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ "James Alan MOY-THOMAS | Christ Church, Oxford". Chch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
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  3. ↑ Deaths on Active Service. The Times March 4, 1944; pg. 1; Issue 49796.
  4. ↑ "Casualty Details". CWGC.org. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  5. ↑ The Times, 4 March 1944, page 7
  6. ↑ Nature (1944-04-08). "Flight-Lieut. J. A. Moy-Thomas : Abstract". Nature.com. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
  7. ↑ "Casualty Details". CWGC.org. 1944-09-20. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
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