Edward Waller (zoologist)
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The son of Thomas Maunsell Waller and Margaret Vereker, Waller was born in Finnoe, County Tipperary. He was a landowner and barrister from County Tipperary. He owned Finnoe House, Borrisokane, a summer home in County Tyrone, and the yacht used by the Belfast Dredging Committee of which he was a member (other members were George Crawford Hyndman, George Dickie and John Gwyn Jeffreys). He was interested in Mollusca and Foraminifera 1867-68 and is honoured in the name Aclis walleri so named by Jeffreys in 1867.
His younger brother was John Francis Waller (1809-1894)[1]
