George Brettingham Sowerby II’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist
Was Naturalist 
Zoologist 
Malacologist 
Writer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Biology 
Literature 
Science 
Social science 
Gender male
Birth 25 March 1812, Greater London, United Kingdom; Lambeth, United Kingdom
Death 26 July 1884, Wood Green, United Kingdom
(aged 72 years)
Star sign Aries
Family
Father: George Brettingham Sowerby 
Siblings: Henry Sowerby 
Children: George Brettingham Sowerby III 

George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812 – 26 July 1884) was a British naturalist, illustrator, and conchologist. Together with his father, George Brettingham Sowerby I, he published the Thesaurus Conchyliorum and other illustrated works on molluscs. He was an elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 7 May 1844. He was the father of George Brettingham Sowerby III, also a malacologist.

The shell craze was further hyped with the publication of British Conchology, a five volume set of books written by the lawyer John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885) and which managed to combine scientific exactitude with delicate, informative historical commentary. Published between 1862 and 1869, and beautifully illustrated by the conchological artist George Sowerby (1812–1884), British Conchology would not be bettered during the Victorian era and it remains a usable and readable resource to this day.

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