James Alan Moy-Thomas

James Alan Moy-Thomas (12 September 1908 – 29 February 1944) was an English palaeontological ichthyologist.

James Alan Moy-Thomas
Born(1908-09-12)September 12, 1908
London
DiedFebruary 29, 1944(1944-02-29) (aged 35)
OccupationPalaeontologist
SpouseJoy Mitchell

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]

References
Wikispecies has information related to J. A. Moy-Thomas.
  1. "James Alan MOY-THOMAS | Christ Church, Oxford". Chch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  2. "The London Gazette". The Gazette Official Public Record. 13 June 1941. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. Deaths on Active Service. The Times 4 March 1944; pg. 1; Issue 49796.
  4. "Casualty Details". CWGC.org. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  5. The Times, 4 March 1944, page 7
  6. Nature (8 April 1944). "Flight-Lieut. J. A. Moy-Thomas : Abstract". Nature. Nature.com. 153 (3884): 427. doi:10.1038/153427a0.
  7. Alexander, R. McNeill (1975). The chordates. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press. p. 18-19. ISBN 978-0-521-20472-9.
  8. "Casualty Details". CWGC.org. 20 September 1944. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
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