John Francillon
Male, Deceased Person
1744 – 1816
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Who was John Francillon?
John Francillon was a jeweler and lapidary, an English naturalist and an entomologist of Huguenot descent.
Francillon was a London jeweller who was also a dealer in natural history specimens and paintings. He was the agent for John Abbot selling his American bird and natural history illustrations. He maintained a large insect collection. Some of his butterflies appear in the Icones of William Jones. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
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