Children studied at Queen's College, Cambridge. In 1822 he was working as a librarian in the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum when he was appointed assistant keeper of the Natural History Department in succession to William Elford Leach. The appointment was controversial as he was less qualified than another applicant, William Swainson. After the division of the Department into three sections in 1837 he became keeper of the Department of Zoology, retiring in 1840 and succeeded by his assistant John Edward Gray.
Children was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1807, and served as the society's secretary in 1826, and from 1830 to 1837.
His name is commemorated in the Australian snake Children's Python and the mineral childrenite. John James Audubon named a warbler after him, but the specimen turned out to be a juvenile Yellow Warbler.
JohnGeorge is not a proven child of Isaac George and Hester Fawdon, though it is generally believed that he belongs to them.
JohnGeorge may have married someone, name unknown, before ca 1693, though it isn't clear or not if that is the case.
JohnGeorge would have been no older than 15 at that earliest date, though if William were born closer to 1693 when John was approximately 19, then it works.
JOHN E. GEORGE, the popular and efficient ex-sheriff of Clay county, and a gentleman who has been identified with the county's agrarian interests for more than a quarter of a century, is he whose name heads this personal sketch.
George has had much to do with the public affairs of Clay county, and it was by the voice of the people at the polls that he was called upon to assume one of the responsible positions within their municipal gift.
George is the owner of a farm of nearly eleven hundred acres, arranged for both pasture and farm and it is stocked with one hundred and sixty-five head of cattle, and one hundred and seventy acres are under plow.
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