James Alan Moy-Thomas

James Alan Moy-Thomas (12 September 1908 – 29 February 1944) was an English palaeontological ichthyologist.

Son of Alan Moy-Thomas and his wife Gertrude, he was born in London. He had a younger brother Edward and an older sister Joan Caroline. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class degree in zoology in 1930[1]

He authored numerous papers on palaeontological ichthyology.

In 1933 he married Joy Mitchell in Wharfedale, Yorkshire.

In 1941 he was granted a Commission in the Special Duties Branch (i.e. intelligence) of the RAF.[2] His service number was 66643. He died in a motor vehicle accident in 1944[3] and was buried in Cambridge.[4] An obituary was published in The Times,[5] and another by Edwin Stephen Goodrich was published in Nature.[6]

The genus Jamoytius is named after him.

His brother Edward died later that year on active service in the Netherlands, during Operation Market Garden.[7]

References
  1. "James Alan MOY-THOMAS | Christ Church, Oxford". Chch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20150201065413/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35190/page/3387. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Deaths on Active Service. The Times 4 March 1944; pg. 1; Issue 49796.
  4. "Casualty Details". CWGC.org. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  5. The Times, 4 March 1944, page 7
  6. Nature (8 April 1944). "Flight-Lieut. J. A. Moy-Thomas : Abstract". Nature. Nature.com. 153 (3884): 427. doi:10.1038/153427a0.
  7. "Casualty Details". CWGC.org. 20 September 1944. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
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