Bretherton, Russell Frederick (1906–1991), civil servant and entomologist, was born on 3 February 1906 at Belgrave House, Belgrave Road, Gloucester, the only son of the marriage of Frederick Hawkins Bretherton (1852–1945), solicitor, and Gertrude, née Wing (1864–1952). He had three half-sisters and four half-brothers from his father's earlier marriage. He was a history scholar at ...
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Bretherton, Russell Frederick (1906–1991), civil servant and entomologist
William Nicoll
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Dover, Cedric Cyril (1904–1961), entomologist, anthropologist, and poet
Michael Banton
Dover, Cedric Cyril (1904–1961), entomologist, anthropologist, and poet, was born on 11 April 1904 in Calcutta to Eurasian parents, Percy and Sophy Dover. He was a descendant of Colonel James Skinner, the founder of what became Skinner's Horse, himself born to a Scottish father and a ...
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Harrisson, Tom Harnett (1911–1976), ornithologist, museum curator, and co-founder of the Mass-Observation social survey project
Judith M. Heimann
Harrisson, Tom Harnett (1911–1976), ornithologist, museum curator, and co-founder of the Mass-Observation social survey project, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26 September 1911, the elder of the two children of Brigadier-General Geoffry Harnett Harrisson (1881–1939) and his wife, Marie Ellen (Doll; 1886–1961)...
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Hume, Allan Octavian (1829–1912)
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Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912) by unknown photographer Getty Images
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Hume, Allan Octavian (1829–1912), administrator in India, founder of the Indian National Congress, and ornithologist
Edward C. Moulton
Hume, Allan Octavian (1829–1912), administrator in India, founder of the Indian National Congress, and ornithologist, was born on 4 June 1829 at St Mary Cray, Kent, seventh child of Joseph Hume MP (1777–1855) and his wife, Maria Burnley (b. 1786). He grew up in the radical family environment of ...
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Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell (1887–1975)
Maker: Howard Coster
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975) by Howard Coster, 1939 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell (1887–1975), zoologist and philosopher
Robert Olby
Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell (1887–1975), zoologist and philosopher, was born on 22 June 1887 at 61 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, the eldest of three sons and a daughter of Leonard Huxley (1860–1933) and his first wife, Julia Frances Arnold (1862–1908). Leonard Huxley was at this time a schoolmaster at ...
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Lack, David Lambert (1910–1973), ornithologist
C. M. Perrins
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Lack, David Lambert (1910–1973), ornithologist, was born on 16 July 1910 in London, the eldest in the family of three sons and one daughter of Harry Lambert Lack, ear, nose, and throat surgeon, and his wife, Kathleen, an actress, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel McNeil Rind...
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Lack, David Lambert (1910–1973)
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David Lambert Lack (1910–1973) by Elliott & Fry, 1952 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Manning, Thomas Henry (1911–1998), Arctic explorer and zoologist
G. Hattersley-Smith
Manning, Thomas Henry (1911–1998), Arctic explorer and zoologist, was born at Shrublands, Dallington, Northamptonshire, on 22 December 1911, the only child of Thomas Edgar Manning (1884–1975), brewer and county cricketer, and his wife, Dorothy Frances Randall (1886–1968). Educated at Harrow School from 1925 to 1930, he entered ...
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Mitchell, Sir Peter Chalmers (1864–1945), zoologist
J. C. Edwards
Mitchell, Sir Peter Chalmers (1864–1945), zoologist, was born at Dunfermline, Fife, on 23 November 1864, the third of the eleven children of the Revd Alexander Mitchell, and his wife, Marion Hay, daughter of the Revd Peter Chalmers. He was educated at Dunfermline high school...
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Procter, Joan Beauchamp (1897–1931), herpetologist
Howard Bailes
Procter, Joan Beauchamp (1897–1931), herpetologist, was born on 5 August 1897 at 11 Kensington Square, London, the younger daughter and child of Joseph Procter (1865–1945), member of the London stock exchange, and his wife, Elizabeth Harriet (1862–1925), daughter of William Brockbank and his wife, ...
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Romanes, George John [pseuds. Physicus, Metaphysicus] (1848–1894), evolutionary biologist
Roger Smith
Romanes, George John [pseuds. Physicus, Metaphysicus] (1848–1894), evolutionary biologist, was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on 20 May 1848, the third son of the Revd George Romanes and Isabella Gair Smith. His father, who taught Greek at the small university in ...
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Romanes, George John (1848–1894)
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George John Romanes (1848–1894) by Elliott & Fry, 1891 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Tinbergen, Nikolaas (1907–1988)
Maker: Walter Bird
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Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988) by Walter Bird Godfrey Argent Studios / Royal Society
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Tinbergen, Nikolaas (1907–1988), authority on animal behaviour
R. A. Hinde
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Tinbergen, Nikolaas (1907–1988), authority on animal behaviour, was born on 15 April 1907 at The Hague in the Netherlands, the third of five children and second of four sons of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen, schoolteacher, who taught Dutch language and history and was a scholar of medieval Dutch, and his wife, ...
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Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael (1860–1906)
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Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (1860–1906) by unknown photographer The College Art Collections, University of London; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael (1860–1906), zoologist and biometrician
M. Eileen Magnello
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael (1860–1906), zoologist and biometrician, was born on 15 March 1860, at Highgate, Middlesex, the second child of the journalist and industrial chemist Walter Weldon (1832–1885) and his wife, Anne Cotton (d. 1881). His father's wealth came from his patents of the manganese regeneration process and the magnesia chlorine process. The family moved so frequently that ...
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Wilson, Alexander (1766–1813), ornithologist and poet
Frank N. Egerton
Wilson, Alexander (1766–1813), ornithologist and poet, was born on 6 July 1766 within the former walled garden of Paisley Abbey, Paisley, probably the youngest of the three children of Alexander Wilson, weaver, illicit distiller, and smuggler, and his first wife, Mary McNab. Both parents were Scottish, and his mother died before his tenth birthday. While his mother lived, he was happy and attended the ...
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Young, John Zachary (1907–1997)
Maker: Walter Stoneman
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John Zachary Young (1907–1997) by Walter Stoneman, 1950 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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