Hi James and all,
 
I found on the Internet a list of marine biologists with this text about
Milne-Edwards:
 
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Henri Milne Edwards, 1800-85, the large name within French zoology during
the middle of the 19:th century. He was the 27:th of the 28 (certain sources
say 29) children of the Englishman William I. Edwards, who had been a
planter and colonel in the militia in Jamaica. His mother was Elizabeth
Vaux, Williams 2:nd wife and Henri was her 2:nd child, (so she was just
responsible for a few of the children). His parents returned from this
island to England, but moved rather soon to Bruges, Belgium (at that time
part of France), where Henri was born. Henri was brought up in Paris by his
older brother William Edwards, who was a well reputed physiologist there,
because his father was prisoned for several years, after having helped some
englishmen to escape from Belgium during the war. After the fall of
Napoleon, the father was released and then the rest of the family also moved
to Paris, where Henri took a MD in the beginning of the 1820s. He was,
however, more interested in zoology and became a disciple of Cuvier (q.v.)
together with i.a. Audouin (q.v.). In 1823 - the same year his father died -
he married Mlle Laura Trézel, who bore him 9 children and also assisted him
by illustrating several of his works. Henri was the father of Alphonse
Milne-Edwards, 1835-1900, who during the last decade of the 19:th century
was director of the Paris Natural History Museum and a specialist on
(especially deep sea) decapod crustaceans; Henri was appointed professor of
hygiene and natural history in 1832 (the year efter he became a French
citicen) at cole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, but moved to the chair
of entomology at the Paris Museum in 1841, after the decease of his
predecessor, friend and coauthor Audouin. Twenty years later he was
transferred to the mammological chair, which long had been vacant after the
decease of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (q.v.). Alphonse studied medicine (MD in 1
860) and biology (D.Sc. in 1861) and was appointed assisting naturalist at
the Paris Museum in 1862. In 1865 he was appointed professor of zoology of
the School of Pharmacy in Paris, but succeded his father at the division of
Mammalia and Aves at the Museum 11 years later and became eventually
director of the museum in 1891. The name Milne was originally one of his
first names, but Henri put it to his family name in order to be
discriminated from all his relatives. He usually did not use a hyphen
between Milne and Edwards, but his son Alphonse always did and in literature
references (including taxon authorship) the name of both father and son is
most often hyphened, although perhaps only the son should be [Edwardsia,
Henricia, Autolytus edwardsi].
 
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Sincerely, Erick