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- Birth of George Bax HolmesGeorge Bax HolmesGeorge Bax Holmes was a wealthy Quaker and fossil collector in Victorian Horsham. Having started life pursuing a medical career he was able to devote more time to his fossil hunting from 1834. It was in that year that his father died and left him considerable property interests...
, a wealthy Quaker who collaborated with Sir Richard Owen.