Mark Catesby was a famed naturalist in the 1700s, rivaling Audubon (who came a century later). He published the two volume Natural
history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1731-43).
Peace Frogs
was founded by a Catesby B. Jones of Virginia (1985)
Catesby Jones (of Mount Sion, Northumberland County) was
mentioned in this collection of
correspondence
from the late 1700s as is Meriwether Jones (of Newcastle, Hanover
County, Virginia) and several other Jones's. Thomas ap Thomas
Jones (of Fayette County, Kentucky) is mentioned in another set of
correspondence.
King Richard III's squire William Catesby was the one who responded to King Richard's "A horse. A horse. My Kingdom for a horse." in Shakespeare's "Tragedy of King Richard III." based on Thomas More's History of Richard III. See this history. He was "the cat" in the 1413 couplet "The cat, the rat and Lovell the dog / Rule all England under the hog." See this detail.
Robert Catesby was a co-conspiritor in the Gunpowder Plot
