Edward Waller (1803–1873) was an Irish zoologist.
Life The son of Thomas Maunsell Waller and Margaret Vereker, Waller was born in Finnoe, County Tipperary. He was a landowner and barrister from County Tipperary. He owned Finnoe House, Borrisokane, a summer home in County Tyrone.
He had a keen interest in marine biology, and was a member of the Belfast Dredging Committee with George Crawford Hyndman, George Dickie and John Gwyn Jeffreys; in 1857 the committee received two years of funding from the British Association, and used Waller’s yacht to dredge Belfast Lough and Strangford Lough.
He had a large collection which he left to the National Museum of Ireland; this included the Circulus striatus, a new specimen which he found in Donegal.
He was interested in Mollusca and Foraminifera 1867-68 and is honoured in the name Aclis walleri so named by Jeffreys in 1867.
His younger brother was John Francis Waller (1809-1894)Source citation for Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22
Family Waller married Mary Crossle on 3 August 1829 at Aughnacloy, County Tyrone. Mary was the only daughter of Henry Crossle of Avaline House in County Tyrone.Belfast, Northern Ireland, The Belfast Newsletter (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1738-1925
Works Waller, Edward 1867 Report on the Foraminifera obtained in the Shetland Seas. Report Brit. Assoc. (Dundee, 1867), 1867, pp. 441-446. London. Waller, Edward 1868 Report on the Shetland Foraminifera for 1868. Report Brit. Assoc. (Norwich, 1868), 1868, pp. 340, 341. London.
References
Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON)