John Paget Figg-Hoblyn
Template:Short description John Paget Figg-Hoblyn Ph.D (Biological science) (January 25, 1926 – June 12, 2011)Script error: No such module "Unsubst". was a university professor, and taxonomist. He came to public attention when a BBC documentary was broadcast about the search for him in 1994, after he had failed to claim an inheritance which included Fir Hill Manor.
Inheritance dispute
Figg-Hoblyn came to public attention in 1994, when the BBC broadcast a documentary about him.[1][2] In 1965 his father had bequeathed him a 1000-acre estate and the ruins of a manor house, Fir Hill Manor, in Cornwall, England. According to the Official Solicitor, he failed to take up the inheritance.[2] The Official Solicitor was appointed in 1972 to manage the estate for John Figg-Hoblyn in the 1970s when they lost contact with him.[2]
The BBC documentary discovered Figg-Hoblyn was living in a caravan park in California, United States,[2] where he and his sister, Peggy, were following a low-key lifestyle trading in organic produce. The BBC subsequently lost contact with him.[2]
In 2007, the next-in-line to inherit the estate as the eldest male, John Westropp Figg-Hoblyn, put out a call to find John Paget Figg-Hoblyn before the inheritance which included Fir Hill Manor was lost.[2][3]
John Paget Figg-Hoblyn died in a nursing home on 12 June 2011 at the age of 85.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Academic career
Figg-Hoblyn was educated at Stanford University, California, United States. In 1953, he described a unique species of jewel beetle that he had discovered, which was given the name Acmaeodera nanbrownae. This name is now classified as a junior synonym for Acmaeodera vanduzeei.[4] Dr. Figg-Hoblyn used to have a lab at Stanford University,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and taught at San Jose State University.[5]
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