Robert John Lechmere Guppy was a British-born naturalist after whom the guppy is named. He was one of four children of Robert Guppy, a lawyer and the Mayor of San Fernandon (Trinidad), and Amelia Parkinson, a painter and one of the pioneers of photography, who navigated the Orinoco River accompanied by only a few native Indians. "Lechmere," as he was called, was raised by his grandparents, Richard Parkinson and Lucy Lechmere, in Kinnersley Castle, a 13th-century Norman castle in Herefordshire.

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  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy was a British-born naturalist after whom the guppy is named. He was one of four children of Robert Guppy, a lawyer and the Mayor of San Fernandon (Trinidad), and Amelia Parkinson, a painter and one of the pioneers of photography, who navigated the Orinoco River accompanied by only a few native Indians. "Lechmere," as he was called, was raised by his grandparents, Richard Parkinson and Lucy Lechmere, in Kinnersley Castle, a 13th-century Norman castle in Herefordshire. Richard Parkinson wanted Lechmere to take over the castle, a role in which he had no interest. Having come into an inheritance from another relative, he left England at the age of 18 and was shipwrecked on the coast of New Zealand in 1856. After living with the Māoris for two years and mapping the area, Lechmere left New Zealand for Trinidad, where his parents were living. He married Alice Rostant, the daughter of local French creole planters and a descendant of the Counts of Rostant, French aristocrats who had fled to Trinidad to escape the French Revolution and became Trinidad's first Superintendent of Schools. Although he had no formal training in the sciences, (he was a civil engineer by trade), Lechmere wrote and published numerous articles on the palaeontology of the region. There is no truth to the rumor that Guppy was also a clergyman. In fact, he was an agnostic.
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy war ein britischer Naturwissenschaftler, nach dem der Guppy benannt wurde. Im Gegensatz zu dem, was man oft lesen kann, war Guppy kein Kirchenmann.
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy est un botaniste, un naturaliste et un explorateur britannique, né le 15 août 1836 à Londres et mort le 5 août 1916 à Trinidad. En 1866, alors en mission à Trinité-et-Tobago, il fait parvenir à Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1830-1914) du British Museum des spécimens vivants d’une nouvelle espèce de poisson que Günther lui dédie : Girardinus guppyi. On découvre plus tard que cette espèce avait déjà été découverte en 1856 et nommée par Wilhelm Peters (1815-1883) en 1859 sous le nom de Poecilia reticulata. On l'appelle communément Guppy. Contrairement à ce que l’on peut lire souvent, Guppy n’était pas un homme d’Église. Il fait paraître de très nombreux travaux sur les mollusques et les fossiles des Caraïbes.
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy ur. 15 sierpnia 1836 roku w Londynie, zmarł 5 sierpnia 1916 w San Fernando, Trynidad i Tobago. Był jednym z czwórki dzieci Roberta Guppy, prawnika i Amelii Parkinson. Dorastał u dziadków w trzynastowiecznym normańskim zamku w Hereford. W wieku 18 lat opuścił Wielką Brytanię i udał się do wybrzeży Nowej Zelandii. W 1866 roku w wodach Trynidadu odkrył Gupika pawie oczko.
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  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy was a British-born naturalist after whom the guppy is named. He was one of four children of Robert Guppy, a lawyer and the Mayor of San Fernandon (Trinidad), and Amelia Parkinson, a painter and one of the pioneers of photography, who navigated the Orinoco River accompanied by only a few native Indians. "Lechmere," as he was called, was raised by his grandparents, Richard Parkinson and Lucy Lechmere, in Kinnersley Castle, a 13th-century Norman castle in Herefordshire.
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy war ein britischer Naturwissenschaftler, nach dem der Guppy benannt wurde. Im Gegensatz zu dem, was man oft lesen kann, war Guppy kein Kirchenmann.
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy est un botaniste, un naturaliste et un explorateur britannique, né le 15 août 1836 à Londres et mort le 5 août 1916 à Trinidad. En 1866, alors en mission à Trinité-et-Tobago, il fait parvenir à Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1830-1914) du British Museum des spécimens vivants d’une nouvelle espèce de poisson que Günther lui dédie : Girardinus guppyi.
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy ur. 15 sierpnia 1836 roku w Londynie, zmarł 5 sierpnia 1916 w San Fernando, Trynidad i Tobago. Był jednym z czwórki dzieci Roberta Guppy, prawnika i Amelii Parkinson. Dorastał u dziadków w trzynastowiecznym normańskim zamku w Hereford. W wieku 18 lat opuścił Wielką Brytanię i udał się do wybrzeży Nowej Zelandii. W 1866 roku w wodach Trynidadu odkrył Gupika pawie oczko.
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