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.