John Edmonstone

John Edmonstone

John Edmonstone is included in the list of 100 Great Black Britons compiled by Patrick Vernon.

John Edmonstone was originally a black slave. He came from Guyana in South America. Charles Waterton taught John taxidermy. His master, Charles Edmonstone brought him to Glasgow. After he was freed John Edmonstone practiced taxidermy first in Glasgow. Later he settled in Edinburgh at 37 Lothian Street and taught students at Edinburgh University taxidermy.

John Edmonstone and Charles Darwin

John Edmonstone gave Charles Darwin inspiring accounts of tropical rain forests in South America and may have encouraged Darwin to explore there.

Certainly the taxidermy Darwin learnt from Edmonstone helped him greatly during The Voyage of the Beagle.

John Edmonstone was probably born in Demerara where Charles Waterton's father in law, Charles Edmonstone (b. 1793, Cardross Park, Dunbarton, Scotland - 1822, Demerara, Br. Guiana) had a plantation.

References

* [http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/john_edmonstone.html One Hundred Great Black Britons]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/making_history/making_history_20051025.shtml BBC Radio 4, Making History]
* [http://www.vanderleeuwlezing.nl/mcewan_eng.htm Literature, Science and Human Nature]


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