James Alan Moy-Thomas | |
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Born | |
Died | 29 February 1944 | (aged 35)
Occupation | Palaeontologist |
Spouse | Joy Mitchell |
James Alan Moy-Thomas (12 September 1908 – 29 February 1944) was an English palaeontological ichthyologist.
The 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]
Two genera of Palaeozoic fish, Jamoytius and Moythomasia, are named after him. [7]
His brother Edward died later that year on active service in the Netherlands, during Operation Market Garden. [8]