Thomas Hawkins

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