This Dr William Buckland (1784-1856) did
yeoman service in the cause of
meat-eating. He claimed to have worked his way through the entire animal kingdom. He lived near London
Zoo and was a frequent
visitor. When a rare animal came up, he would get the news and be in there with his little
knife and fork. He was on holiday when the
leopard finally changed its spots, and on his return found it had been
buried. So he dug it up and enjoyed a slightly
game leopard steak. The two most
horrible things he had ever tasted were the
mole and the
bluebottle, which was worse even than the mole.
Buckland was a geologist, reader in mineralogy at Oxford, and in 1845 Dean of Westminster, which appointment must have been a source of comfort to him, what with the comparative scarcity of pangolins and rheas in the cobbled streets of Oxford.
In Wales in 1823 he discovered a prehistoric burial called the Red Lady of Paviland, which he turned out to be very wrong about. See that node for the fascinating details.