William Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 � 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.
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“Utopia’s quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England—with improvements,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)