Famous People with Name Octavius

Octavius Valentine Catto            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Octavius Valentine Catto: was an African American educator, intellectual, civil rights activist, and cricket and baseball player in 19th-century Philadelphia.

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge: was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset. He studied theology at the University of Durham, and became a vicar in 1858, succeeding his father at Bloxworth in 1868. In 1857 he presented the Pickard-Cambridge Challenge Cup to University College BC,University of Durham for a skiff race; it was re-presented in 1895 for college second trial fours.His main interest was in spiders, though he wrote also on birds and lepidoptera (butterflys and moths). This passion for arachnids was probably fostered in 1854 in which year he both accompanied the entomologist Frederick Bond on a visit to the New Forest in Hampshire and was introduced to the writings of the arachnologist John Blackwall