Thomas Hawkins

Thomas Hawkins (July 22, 1810 - October 15, 1889) was an English fossil preparator, collector, and dealer who donated extensive fossil collections to the British Museum as well as Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and was noted for his advocacy for a religiously-inspired view of dinosaurs as pre-Adamic beings (and general eccentricity, including a broad litigiousness and claims to being the rightful Earl of Kent).