Herbert F. Standing
Herbert Fox Standing was an English paleontologist and Quaker medical missionary in Madagascar. He was the author of the book The Children of Madagascar and the Headmaster of the Boys' High School of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association in Antananarivo.
Standing is responsible for describing four species of subfossil lemur, including Archaeoindris fontoynontii, Mesopropithecus pithecoides, Palaeopropithecus maximus, Megaladapis grandidieri, and other subfossil taxa that have since become taxonomic synonyms. Standing's day gecko '' is named after him.
Standing married Lucy Glynn in 1881. They had seven children.