bringing to England the Gibraltar skull (the second Neanderthal fossil ever found and the first known adult one) which was excavated at Gibraltar in 1848. The identification of the skull as belonging to a Neanderthal was not made until the 20th century. Personal life and demise On 12 August 1843 George Busk married Ellen Busk, his first cousin. They had two daughters. He died in London on 10 August 1886 and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, in the northern section of the central circle. Notes References Attribution External links 1807 births 1886 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital British palaeontologists English zoologists Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery English biologists English surgeons Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Lyell Medal winners Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Ethnological Society of London Royal Medal winners Wollaston Medal winners 19th-century Royal Navy personnel Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Navy Medical Service officers Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland