Hello, and welcome to another Working from Home episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and and once again,
we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with fact number one, that's my fact.
My fact this week is, before hermit crabs were called hermit crabs, there was a hermit called Crab.
This is a man called Roger Crab, his dates were 1621 to 1680 and he was an English soldier,
he was a haberdasher, he was a herbal doctor, an author and a hermit and he predates the naming of hermit crabs.
So did he live in a kind of shell,
which he would periodically exchange for a very slightly larger shell, a hermit crab named after him?
Well, hermit crabs I believe are named after hermits generally,
but I don't think he was such a famous hermit that he sort of defined the whole species.
He was semi-famous, right?
Isn't there a thought that he was a hatter and there's a thought that Lewis Carroll's mad hatter was maybe based on him
because he was also,
it seems, quite mad.
Yeah, I couldn't find anything that sort of truly links that other than people saying it was thought.
Did you get anywhere with that?
No, like people were writing about him a lot in the 19th century when Lewis Carroll was also writing, you know,