John Cranch (naturalist)
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Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:Use dmy dates John Cranch (1785–1816) was an English naturalist and explorer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Explorer
John Cranch - 'Jack' to his friends<ref name="RaySoc">Template:Cite book</ref> - took part in an expedition in 1816 under Captain James Hingston Tuckey to discover the source of the River Congo, and died there.<ref name="Damkaer">Template:Cite book</ref>
Legacy
His friend William Elford Leach named nineteen new species and one new genus after him in his description of the expedition.<ref name="Damkaer"/> These include for example the marine isopod crustacean Cirolana cranchi which he named in 1818.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>