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"B.C.A.S." ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1903 Perth & Kinross Roller.
"B.H." ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1857 Caithness Gyr Falcon.
"Blue Bonnet" ( - ) Hartlepool, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1862 Cleveland Common Crane.
"Botaurus Stellaris" ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1862 Norfolk Purple Heron.
"Buxton" ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1904 Argyll Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Babington, Rev. Churchill (1821 - 13/01/1889) Cockfield, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Examined the 1847 Suffolk Snowy Owl. Examined the 1850 Norfolk Caspian Tern. Owned the 1872 Suffolk Little Bittern. Owned the rejected 1883 Suffolk White-billed Diver. Owned the 1883 Norfolk Gyr Falcon. Examined the pre 1884 Suffolk Squacco Heron. Owned the 1884 Suffolk Great Snipe.
Biography Rector. Author of The Birds of Suffolk (1884-86).
Obituary Zoologist 1889: 66.
Backhouse, jnr., Edward (1808 - 1879) Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Bird Notes Owned the 1831 Durham Glossy Ibis. Owned the c. 1831 Durham European Roller. Owned the 1837 Durham Ivory Gull.
Biography Quaker philanthropist. Moved to Sunderland during 1816 with his parents.
Temperley (1951) says: 'Amongst hitherto unpublished material is an MS. entitled "A Catalogue of the Birds of the County of Durham" by Edward Backhouse Jnr, Sunderland 1834.' It is written in a rough note-book, in which 203 species are mentioned. The status of each is given and, in the case of the less common species, some details of their recorded occurrences are entered. As Edward Backhouse lived in Sunderland and frequently visited Seaton Carew, his own records are chiefly those of sea and shore birds. He made a collection of birds, many of which had been obtained locally, and later presented it to the Sunderland Museum.'
Backhouse, James ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1934 Meirionydd Ferruginous Duck.
Backhouse, jun., James (14/04/1861 - 01/01/1945) West Bank, York, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1844 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1850 Yorkshire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the two 1880 Yorkshire Ivory Gulls. Owned the rejected 1882 Yorkshire American Kestrel. Recorded the 1882 Yorkshire White's Thrush. Recorded and owned the 1889 Yorkshire Oriental Turtle Dove. Recorded the 1892 Yorkshire Baillon's Crake.
Biography Curator to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's Museum, York. In 1885, James Backhouse, jnr., published 'Notes on the Avifauna of Upper Teesdale,' in The Naturalist (Oct. and Nov., 1885). It dealt with the ornithology of the valley above Middleton-in-Teesdale and contained notes on 117 species. This was followed in 1898 by a chapter on 'Birds' in his little volume 'Upper Teesdale, Past and Present.' Published the 'Handbook of European Birds in 1890. He donated his collection to the Yorkshire Museum in 1902. Correspondent of J. A. Harvie-Brown.
Backhouse, T. P. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1920 Devon Squacco Heron. Saw and recorded the 1920 Devon Glossy Ibis.
Backhouse, William ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1822 Durham Pine Grosbeak. Recorded the 1831 Durham Glossy Ibis. Recorded the 1837 Durham Ivory Gull.
Bacon, F. ( - ) Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Saw the 1903 Lincolnshire Red-flanked Bluetail.
Biography Beater. Friend of G. H. Caton-Haigh.
Bacon, G. ( - ) Heron Court, Christchurch, Dorset.
Bird Notes Shot the 1862 Dorset Little Bittern.
Biography Gamekeeper at Heron Court.
Bagge, R. S. ( - ) Gaywood Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1874 Norfolk Little Bustard.
Bagnall-Oakeley, R. P. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and photographed the 1948 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpiper. Recorded and misidentified the 1954 Norfolk Short-toed Larks.
Bagot, Charles Frederick Heneage (25/01/1858 - 02/06/1939) b. Castle Rising, Norfolk. d. Bitterley, Shropshire.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1875 Norfolk Great Snipe.
Biography Educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England and at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire.
Bagot, Rev. Charles Walter (11/02/1812 - 10/09/1884) Castle Rising, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the imported 1853 Norfolk Eagle Owl. Owned the 1860 Norfolk Castle Rising Little Bustard.
Baigrie, Sim ( - ) Isle of May, Fife.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1916 Fife Red-breasted Flycatcher.
Biography Lighthouse Keeper.
Baikie, William Balfour (27/08/1825 - 12/12/1864) Orkney; Surrey.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1851 Orkney Tengmalm's Owl.
Biography Naturalist and Scottish explorer. M.D. at Haslar Hospital, Surrey, in 1853. While in Nigeria in 1854 he found that regular doses of quinine helped to prevent malaria, thus improving African exploration.
Bailey, Matthew (1835 - 20/09/1908) Flamborough, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1863 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle. Preserved the 1863 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl. Preserved the 1865 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle. Informed J. G. Tuck about the 1875 Yorkshire Ivory Gull. Preserved the rejected 1886 Yorkshire Meadow Bunting. Recorded the 1897 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle.
Biography Tailor.
Obituary Naturalist 1908: 455-456.
Bailey, W. E. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1890 Cornwall Least Sandpiper.
Baillon, Louis Antoine Francois (00/02/1778 - 1855)b. Monreuil, France.
Biography About 1792 the family moved to Abbeville on the Somme. Both he and his father were naturalists, but after his father died in 1802 he dedicated himself to collecting and building up a collection. Some of these specimens were sent to Vieillot, including a small crake which he named in his honour Rallus Bailloni, which had been collected in Picardy where it arrives in April.
Bain, John ( - ) Pentland Skerries, Orkney; Noss Head, Caithness.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1912 Orkney Red-breasted Flycatcher. Recorded the 1913 Orkney Gull-billed Tern. Saw and recorded the 1934 Caithness Ortolan Bunting.
Biography Lighthouse keeper at Pentland Skerries, Orkney and Noss Head, Caithness.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823 - 1887) America.
Biography While working at the Smithsonian Institute a young eighteen year old Elliott Coues discovered a new species of sandpiper while working through a bird collection there which had been sent from the Great Slave Lake. He named it in his honour.
Bak, F. A. ( - ) Leicestershire
Bird Notes Saw the four 1947 Isle of May Little Buntings. Recorded the 1947 Leicestershire Red-breasted Flycatcher.
Baker, E. ( - ) Mere,Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Assisted Morres with Wiltshire records.
Baker, J. ( - ) Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the now rejected 1826 Cambridgeshire Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Obtained and preserved the now rejected 1840 Cambridgeshire Savi's Warbler. Preserved the now rejected 1843 Cambridgeshire Dowitcher sp.
Biography Taxidermist. Unreliable. Described by Lack (1934) as "a reliable naturalist" but many of the British labelled birds sold to the British Museum were doubtful (See British Birds 54: 344-345). Earlier he had sent fishes and birds to William Yarrell.
Baker, Robert ( - ) Writtle, Essex.
Bird Notes Owned the 1837-38 Essex Little Bustard.
Biography Farmer.
Baker, Robert ( - ) Suffolk.
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1860 Suffolk Eastern Meadowlark.
Biography Servant to Rev. T. L. French
Baker, T. M. ( - ) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Son of Mrs. Baker. Inherited the 1824 Norfolk Black-winged Stilt.
Biography Town Clerk in Great Yarmouth.
Baker, William ( - ) Bridgwater, Somerset.
Bird Notes Sent the letters to Zoologist re 1814 Somerset Black Stork.
Baker ( - ) Downham, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1860 Norfolk Castle Rising Little Bustard.
Baker ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1822-23 Norfolk Little Bittern. Owned the 1824 Norfolk Black-winged Stilt.
Baldwin, Edward T. ( - ) Woodcroft, Ulverston, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Examined and recorded the rejected 1876 Cumbria Purple Gallinule.
Bales, Henry ( - ) Teesmouth, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Shot the misidentified 1853 Cleveland Gyr Falcon.
Ball, C. R. H. ( - )
Bird Notes Picked up dead the 1929 Norfolk Little Bittern.
Ball, P. A. J. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Cambridgeshire spring Pectoral Sandpiper. Saw the 1948 Cambridgeshire autumn Pectoral Sandpiper.
Ball, P. H. ( - ) Minna Lodge, Hunstanton, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1922 Norfolk Alpine Swift.
Banham, Dan ( - ) Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1917 Norfolk Cattle Egret.
Banister, James D. ( - ) Pilling, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected pre1843 Lancashire Harlequin Duck.
Bankart, E. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded and shot the 1899 Shetland King Eider.
Banker, J. ( - ) Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected pair 1852 Devon Little Shearwaters.
Bankes, A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1911 Devon Roller.
Bankes, E. R. ( - ) The Rectory, Corfe Castle, Dorset.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1893 Dorset Woodchat Shrike.
Biography Rector.
Banks, Sir Joseph (1743 - 1820) Revesby Estate, Boston, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Owned the pre 1783 Lincolnshire Rose-coloured Starling.
Biography Botanist. President of the Royal Society and founder of the London Horticultural Society. See Walters, 2003: 75.
Banks, R. C. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1908 Gwent Dark-breasted Barn Owl.
Barber ( - ) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1849 Norfolk Caspian Tern which later went to Mr. Bellin.
Barchard, G. ( - ) Skerlaugh, Hull, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1890 Yorkshire White Stork.
Barclay, Charles ( - )
Bird Notes Obtained the rejected pre1844 Moray Great Bustard.
Barclay, D. ( - ) Forsinard, Sutherland, Highland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1896 Sutherland Snowy Owl.
Biography Gamekeeper.
Barclay, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Reported the rejected 1844 Moray & Nairn Little Egret to G. Gordon.
Barclay, Margaret ( - ) Hythe, Kent.
Bird Notes Saw three 1916 Kent Alpine Swifts. Saw two 1931 Norfolk Barred Warblers. Saw and recorded the 1932 Northumberland Little Bunting. Saw the 1933 Norfolk Broad-billed Sandpiper. Saw and recorded the 1936 Norfolk White-tailed Eagle.
Barclay ( - ) Bury Hill, Dorking, Surrey.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1894/95 Surrey Purple Swamphen.
Barclay ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1910 Norfolk Great Snipe.
Baring, Thomas ( - ) Thetford, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1899 Norfolk Nutcracker.
Barkley, Robert ( - ) Flamborough, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Caught the 1863 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl.
Barlow, Frederick ( - c.1881) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1863 Bedfordshire White-tailed Eagle.
Barnard, Leonard ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1916 Highland Ivory Gull.
Barnard, R. T. ( - ) Kinton Hall, Warwick, Warwickshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1851 Warwickshire Upland Sandpiper.
Barnard, Walter ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1894 Northumberland Roller.
Barnardiston ( - ) Suffolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1876 Suffolk White-tailed Eagle and informed Babington.
Barnes, James ( - ) Northumberland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1874 Northumberland White Stork.
Biography Overseer at Scremerston colliery.
Barnes, J. A. G. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1945 Suffolk Black-winged Stilt.
Barnes, Ruth G. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Wiltshire Little Bustard.
Barnes ( - ) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot five of the first six Richard's Pipits in Norfolk between 1841-1869.
Biography Police Sergeant.
Barr, Matthew ( - ) Beith, Ayrshire.
Bird Notes Examined and identified the 1893 Clyde Baillon's Crake.
Barrett, J. H. ( - ) Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw the 1946 Yorkshire Little Crake.
Barrington, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1940 Northamptonshire Pectoral Sandpiper.
Barron, Charles ( - ) Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the imported 1857 Warwickshire White-tailed Eagle.
Barrow, George ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1830 Norfolk Steller's Eider.
Biography Gunner.
Barrow, John (1764 - 1848) b. Morecambe Bay, Lancashire. London.
Biography Educated at Ulverston, Cumbria, where he excelled at mathematics. Later, he was introduced to a man who ran an academy at Greenwich, London and he was employed there to teach mathematics. After various travels to China and South Africa where he got married and lived for a while, the colony was cede to the Dutch and so he moved to England.
From 1807 to 1845 he was Second Secreatry to the Admiralty, to be the First you had to be a MP. It was from this office he sent the likes of James Clark Ross, Edward Sabine and John Franklin in search of the North-west Passagem and therefore indirectly instigated the study of North American Arctic biology.
Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica (J. F. Gmelin) was named in his honour.
Barrow ( - ) Christchurch, Dorset.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1822 Dorset Little Egret. Preserved the rejected 1864 Hampshire Pine Grosbeak.
Barry, Martin (1802 - 1855)
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the rejected 1847 Clyde Islands Steller's Eider. Recorded and owned the rejected 1854 Shetland Red-throated Pipit.
Biography See Ibis 1863 477-478. His catalogued had all sorts of unheard of specimens of supposed British-killed birds.
Bartholomew, James ( - ) Glasgow, Clyde.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 1913 Dumfries & Galloway Yellow-browed Warbler.
Bartlett, Abraham Dee (27/10/1812 - 07/05/1897) College Street, London; Regent's Park, London.
Bird Notes Purchased the 1837/8 Greater London American Wigeon. Owned the 1837-38 Suffolk Squacco Heron.
Biography Superintendent of the London Zoological Society's Gardens.
Obituary Ibis 1897: 479-481; Zoologist 1897: 267-268.
Bartlett, C. O. ( - ) Wareham, Dorset.
Bird Notes Owned the 1858 Dorset Glossy Ibis.
Bartlett, H. D. ( - ) College Street, Camden Town, London.
Bird Notes Preserved and exhibited the 1851 Berkshire White-tailed Eagle.
Bartlett, Rev. J. Pemberton ( - ) Exbury Parsonage, Hampshire; Kent.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1844 Kent Great White Egret. Recorded the 1844 Kent Black Stork. Recorded the rejected 1861/2 Hampshire Greater Short-toed Lark.
Bartlett ( - ) Ebrington Street, Plymouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1876 Devon Great Snipe. Preserved the 1876 Devon Snowy Owl.
Bartlett ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1861 Norfolk Little Bustard.
Biography Father-in-law of Mr. Fuller.
Barton, J. H. ( - ) Cornwall.
Bird Notes Presented the 1919 Cornwall Night Heron to Truro Museum.
Barton ( - )
Bird Notes With his son he stuffed the 1875 rejected Essex/Kent Bridled Tern.
Bartram, William (1739 - 1823) Philadephia, America.
Biography Alexander Wilson named it in honour of the great botanist William Bartram, having found the specimen on the banks of the river Schuylkill, near Philadephia, and named it Tringa Bartramia in his American Ornithology (1808-14). Today the sandpiper is known as the Upland Sandpiper.
Baskerville ( - ) Clyro Court, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1867 Radnorshire Squacco Heron. His brothers saw the rejected 1880 Herefordshire Collared Pratincole.
Bassett, G. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1820 Nottinghamshire Night Heron.
Bastard, W. ( - ) Oakhill, Slapton, Devon.
Bird Notes Owned the 1876 Devon Rufous-tailed Bush Robin.
Biography His collection contained the specimen of the Rufous Bush Robin shot near Slapton in 1876.
Bates, Benjamin ( - ) 7, Little North Street, 2, Bourne Street, and 48, Seaside Road, Eastbourne, Sussex.
Bird Notes Owned the 1862 Sussex Little Crake. Preserved the two 1866 Sussex Spotted Sandpipers. Recorded the 1870 Sussex White-rumped Sandpiper. Preserved the 1876 Sussex Great Bustard. Preserved the 1906 Sussex Glossy Ibis.
Biography There were probably two generations of the Bates family between 1867 and 1927. They occupied premises in 7, Little North Street, 2, Bourne Street, and 48, Seaside Road, all in Eastbourne.
Bates, F. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1923 Flintshire Ferruginous Duck.
Bates ( - ) Finchley, London.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1860 Middlesex Alpine Swift.
Biography Farmer.
Bates ( - )
Bird Notes Preserved the 1876 Durham Little Bustard.
Bathgate, Simon ( - ) Coldingham, Borders.
Bird Notes Caught the 1866 Borders White-tailed Eagle.
Biography Gamekeeper to Mr. J. R. L'Amy.
Batson ( - ) Horseheath, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected undated Lincolnshire Cedar Waxwing.
Battersby, Dr. Robert ( - ) Torquay, Devon.
Bird Notes Recorded the two rejected 1846 Devon Harlequin Ducks.
Baxter, Dr. Evelyn Vida (1878 - 01/10/1959) Upper Largo, Fife.
Bird Notes Examined the c.1875 Fife Snowy Owl. Recorded and examined the 1909 Fife Pied Wheatear. Saw and recorded the 1924 Fife Subalpine Warbler. Examined and recorded the 1925 Orkney Dark-breasted Barn Owl. Saw and recorded the 1932 Fife Icterine Warbler. Saw and recorded the 1946 Fife Broad-billed Sandpiper. Saw and recorded the 1946 Fife Barred Warblers.
Biography Ornithologist. National Author of Birds of Scotland with Miss Leonora Rintoul. See Scottish Birds 1: 168-172. Elected Honorary Lady Member of the BOU in 1911 and in 1949 becoming the first Lady Vice-President.
With Leonora Rintoul she often spent her time at Tentsmuir where they met Wm. Eagle Clarke who encouraged them to visit the Isle of May to study migration, this they did from September 1907 every spring and autumn (except during the war) for the next twenty-six years.
Obituary British Birds 53: 125-127.
Baxter, G. H. ( - ) Carlton House, Leytonstone, Essex.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1879 Essex Scops Owl.
Baxter, R. L. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Cambridgeshire Pectoral Sandpiper.
Baylis, H. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Surrey Pratincole sp.
Beadon ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1870 Somerset White's Thrush.
Beauchamp, C. G. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1910 Sussex Serin.
Beaumont, Alfred (1830 - 21/02/1904) Parkton Grove, Honley, Yorkshire; Lewisham, London; Gosfield, Essex.
Bird Notes Exhibited the rejected pre1864 Yorkshire White's Thrush.
Biography Entomologist. President of the Huddersfield Naturalists' Society.
Beaumont, G. ( - ) Coleorton, Leicestershire.
Bird Notes His keeper shot the 1879 Leicestershire White-tailed Eagle. Saw the 1881 Leicestershire Eagle sp.
Beazley ( - ) Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Bird Notes Received the 1858 Wight Squacco Heron.
Becher, H. ( - ) Beechwood, Dalkey; Chelsea, London; Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the four 1912 Essex White-winged Black Terns.
Beckerlegge, J. E. (1920 - 1977) St Crowan Vicarage, Praze, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1950 Cornwall Woodchat Shrike.
Biography Cornwall County Recorder.
Obituary Birds in Cornwall 1977: 8.
Beckwith, William E. (17/12/1844 - 01/07/1892) Eaton Constantine, Wellington, Shropshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1866 Shropshire Richard's Pipit. Examined and misidentified the 1884 Highland Orphean Warbler.
Biography Forrest (1899) says 'A third list of Birds was prepared by W. E. Beckwith, and published in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society in 1879. In this list are many additional records of rare Birds as well as species not recorded previously. Later on (1887), Mr. Beckwith commenced a series of papers in the same publication, entitled "Notes on Shropshire Birds". These are of the greatest value and interest, as they give full details of the habits of all our commoner Wild Birds; drawn mainly from his own personal observation. These notes would have been published as a book, but his death in 1892, unfortunately, put an end to them when only half completed.'
Obituary Field 30th July 1892: 205.
Bedford, Duchess Mary du Caurroy Russell (26/09/1865 - 22/03/1937) Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1894 Bedfordshire Lesser Grey Shrike. Saw the 1908 Kent Solitary Sandpiper. Saw the 1910 Fair Isle White-spotted Bluethroat. Found the 1910 Fair Isle Blyth's Reed Warbler. Shot and recorded the 1911 Shetland Richard's Pipit. Examined the 1911 Fair Isle Thrush Nightingale. Saw the ten 1914 Shetland Ortolan Buntings. Saw and recorded the 1920 Dumfries & Galloway Common Crane. Recorded the small party of 1923 Dumfries & Galloway Alpine Swifts.
Biography Aviatrix, Authoress and amateur ornithologist. Visited Fair Isle with Wm. Eagle Clarke using her yacht Sapphire in the springs and autumns of 1909, 1910 and 1911 staying at the cottage called Pund. Visited H. N. Pashley at Cley, Norfolk, in September, 1919. Also had a cottage in the hills in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries & Galloway.
The aircraft she was flying crashed into the North Sea on 22nd March 1937 and has never been found.
Obituary British Birds 30: 369; Ibis 1937: 674.
Bedingfield ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1872 Suffolk Little Bittern.
Bedlington, Thomas ( - ) Commercial Street, Middlesborough, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 1852 Yorkshire Rock Thrush.
Beecher ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1913 Cork Squacco Heron.
Beesley, J. S. S. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Kent Long-billed Dowitcher.
Begg, John ( - ) Stromness, Orkney.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1895 Orkney Ivory Gull.
Belfield, Bruce E. ( - ) Hothfield, Ashford, Kent.
Bird Notes Saw the 1942 Kent White-spotted Bluethroat.
Bell, Lt. Alwin S. ( - ) Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1860 Yorkshire Surf Scoter. Obtained the two 1860-61 Yorkshire Woodchat Shrikes.
Biography Naturalist. Collected butterflies for W. C. Hewitson whilst in India, 1874.
Bell, D. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1949 Durham Red-footed Falcon.
Bell, J. ( - ) Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Bird Notes Informed Robert Gray about the 1869 Clyde Bee-eater.
Bell, Robert B. ( - ) Edinburgh, Lothian.
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1892 Highland Roller. Shot the two 1901 Orkney Great Snipe. Recorded the two 1905 Orkney Great Snipe.
Bell, Robert J. ( - ) Mickleover House, near Derby, Derbyshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1845 Yorkshire Steller's Eider. Shot, recorded and owned the 1845 Derbyshire Two-barred Crossbill.
Bell, S. J. ( - ) Stiffkey, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Bought the 1891 Norfolk Great Bustard.
Bell, Prof. Thomas (18/10/1792 - 13/03/1880) b. Poole, Dorest. The Wakes, Selborne, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1792 Norfolk Wallcreeper in 1875 after going through correspondence of Gilbert White.
Biography Dentistry. Professor of Zoology at King's College, London in 1836. At various times he held senior positions in the Linnean, Zoological and Ray Societies. Between 1848 and 1853 he was even secretary of the Royal Society. Here he developed a particular interest in crustacea, reptiles and amphibians and so when Darwin returned on the Beagle loaded with specimens it was Bell who examined and described them, as laid out in Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. Bell’s major contributions are reckoned to be on the zoology of turtles and tortoises and ‘stalk-eyed crustacea’. Bought Gilbert White’s house in 1844, and later died.
Bell ( - ) Stiffkey, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1888 Norfolk Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Bell ( - ) Aiskew, Bedale, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1892 Yorkshire Great Snipe.
Bell ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1846 Suffolk Two-barred Crosbills.
Bellamy, John Cremer (1812 - 12/05/1854) b. Plymouth, Devon.
Biography Author. Surgeon at Yealmpton, Devon.
Bellin, sen., Percy B. ( - ) Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1849 Norfolk Caspian Tern. Shot the 1849 Norfolk Gull-billed Tern. Owned two of the three 1890 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpipers.
Biography Patterson (1905) says: ‘Mr. Bellin senior has a Gull-billed Tern, a Caspian Tern, and other rare terns killed in this neighbourhood.’
Beningfield, E. N. ( - ) Broxbourne Bridge, Hertfordshire.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1884 Hertfordshire Little Bittern.
Benington, J. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1921 Antrim Glossy Ibis.
Bennet, P. ( - )
Bird Notes Leased the land where the 1861 Essex Collared Pratincole was shot.
Bensley, Arthur ( - ) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1890 Norfolk Caspian Plover.
Biography Step-son of Samuel Smith.
Benson, Rev. H. ( - ) Farncombe Rectory, Godalming, Surrey.
Bird Notes Recorded the two 1889 Surrey Two-barred Crossbills.
Bentham, Charles Howard (1883 - 1968) Croydon, Surrey.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1927 Sussex Tawny Pipit.
Biography See Wheatley (2007: 80).
Bentley-Innes, Frederick Stocks ( - 00/05/1887) Thrumster, Caithness.
Bird Notes Shot the 1862 Caithness American Bittern.
Biography Barrister. Family is from Caithness.
Berens, Edward ( - ) Rivington, St Mary Cray, Kent.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1921 Kent White-tailed Eagle.
Beresford, George ( - ) Essex.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1858 Essex Cream-coloured Courser.
Beresford, George D. ( - ) Kent.
Bird Notes Recorded the two rejected 1903 Kent Black-winged Pratincoles.
Beresford, G. H. ( - 05/11/1918) Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Bird Notes Inherited the 1858 Essex Cream-coloured Courser.
Biography Corporal in Essex Regiment, died in WWI. Son of G. Beresford.
Beresford-Webb, G. M. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1907 Kent Nutcracker.
Berkeley, Grantley Fitzhardinge (10/02/1800 - 20/02/1881) b. Cranford House, Hounslow, Middlesex. d. Dursley House, Poole, Dorset.
Bird Notes Owned the 1848 Hampshire Snowy Owl. Shot the 1852 Dorset Caspian Tern. Recorded and examined the 1859 Dorset Killdeer. Recorded the 1862 Dorset Little Bittern.
Biography Politician. Author. Sportsman. An extremely unpleasant man.
Berkeley-Weld, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1938 Lancashire Great Snipe in December.
Berry, Charles (1856 - 01/02/1909) Lendalfoot, Ayrshire.
Bird Notes Saw the two 1889 Ayrshire Glossy Ibises.
Biography Fisherman.
Berry, John (1907 - 2002)
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 1935 Wiltshire Great White Egret. Saw the 1938 Fife American Wigeon.
Biography Author.
Obituary Scottish Birds 22: 121-122.
Berry, W. ( - ) Tayfield, Newport, Fife.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1912 Fife Broad-billed Sandpiper. Recorded and saw the two 1916 Highland Ivory Gulls.
Bessey, John ( - ) Breydon, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the pair of 1827 Norfolk Collared Pratincoles.
Biography Fisherman.
Beswick, J. ( - ) Selby, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1874 Yorkshire Glossy Ibis.
Betteridge, J. & Sons ( - ) Birmingham.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1925 Highland Holboell's Red-necked Grebe.
Bevan, F. ( - ) Carleton Rode, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the c.1830 Norfolk Snowy Owl.
Beveridge, Fred S. ( - ) Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the two 1913 Argyll White-tailed Eagles.
Biography Soldier.
Beveridge, G. ( - ) Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1922 Outer Hebrides Gyr Falcon.
Bewick, Thomas (13/08/1753 - 08/11/1828) Cherryburn, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Examined the 1816 Cornwall Little Bustard.
Biography Wood engraver taught by Ralph Bielby of Newcastle. National author of History of British Birds (1797-1805). Richard Wingate, a Newcastle taxidermist, read a paper to the Natural History Society of Northumberland concerning his discovery of a new swan. He described it in detail but omitted to give the bird a name. Selby who published a paper in 1830, with the help of Sir William Jardine and William Yarrell, referred it to 'Cygnus Bewickii of Wingate'. Thus this now sub-species of the Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus (Ord, 1815) was named in his honour.
Bolam (1912) says: 'Selby's was the earliest really important ornithological work to be done in Northumberland, but no review of this sort, however brief, can pass unnoticed the name of one of Newcastle's famous sons, Thomas Bewick, who, although he contributed but little to our local records, has left a lasting monument of his skill as an engraver upon wood in his books on British Birds, and Quadrupeds. He was born on 13th August, 1753, and died 8th November, 1828, and in one of the galleries in the Hancock Museum are fittingly displayed a large number of his original drawings, the gift of the executors of the will of his last surviving daughter, Miss Isabella Bewick.'
Obituary Ibis 5: 37-39.
Bible, E. H. T. ( - ) Aberdovey, Ceredigion.
Bird Notes Examined the 1932 Meirionydd Baillon's Crake. Saw and recorded the 1934 Meirionydd Ferruginous Duck.
Bickersteth, E. R. ( - ) Craig-y-don, Anglesey.
Bird Notes The 1899 Anglesey Yellow-billed Cuckoo was found at his residence.
Bidgood, William ( - ) Taunton Museum, Somerset.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded 1871 Somerset White's Thrush. Preserved and recorded the 1889 Somerset Common Crane.
Biography Curator of Taunton Museum.
Bidwell, Edward (28/11/1845 - 23/11/1929) Richmond; Fonnereau House, Twickenham, Surrey.
Bird Notes Identified the 1874 Pacific Golden Plover at Leadenhall Market. Owned the 1875 rejected Essex/Kent Bridled Tern. Owned the 1876 Hampshire American Bittern. Recorded the 1875 Cambridgeshire White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1877 Essex Tengmalm's Owl. Saw the 1880 Northumberland Caspian Tern. Examined the 1883 Perthshire American Golden Plover. Examined the 1888 Cumbria Pectoral Sandpiper. Recorded the 1888 Nottinghamshire Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Biography Correspondent of J. A. Harvie-Brown. His collection was sold in 1904.
Obituary British Birds 23: 247; Ibis 1930: 132-133.
Bigge, G. R. ( - ) Hampton Court, London; Debden Hall, Essex.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1825 Hampshire White's Thrush.
Bills ( - ) Brighton, Sussex.
Bird Notes Handled the 1869 Sussex Eastbourne Serin.
Biography Dealer.
Bilson, W. (1808 - 1894) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Recorded the c.1835 Suffolk Alpine Swift. Informed Babington of the 1847 Suffolk Great Snipe. Recorded the 1850 Suffolk Little Bittern. Recorded the 1858 Suffolk White-tailed Eagle in his MS. Recorded the 1861 Suffolk Little Bittern in his MS. Preserved the 1865 Suffolk Scops Owl. Informed Babington about the 1866 Suffolk Little Bustard. Recorded the 1873 Suffolk White-tailed Eagle in his MS. Informed Babington about the 1875 Suffolk Little Bustard.
Biography Taxidermist. See Zoologist 1889: 107.
Birchenough, S. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1948 Nottinghamshire Pectoral Sandpiper.
Bird, Barbara J. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Cumbria Red-breasted Flycatcher.
Bird, C. G. ( - ) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1932 Outer Hebrides American Bittern.
Bird, Edward ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and Identified the 1927 Outer Hebrides Blue-winged Teal. Shot and owned the 1940 Outer Hebrides Blue-winged Teal.
Bird, E. C. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and reported the 1933 Norfolk Ortolan Bunting.
Bird, Rev. Maurice Charles Hilton (28/03/1857 - 18/10/1924) b. London. Brunstead, West Rudham, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1886 Norfolk Ferruginous Duck. Saw the 1893 Norfolk White-Winged Black Tern. Informed Gurney of 1899 Norfolk Little Bittern. Saw the 1906 Norfolk Great Reed Warbler and a pair in 1886. Recorded the 1903 Norfolk Purple Swamp-hen. Reported the five 1906 Norfolk Ferruginous Ducks. Recorded the 1908 Norfolk Purple Swamphen. Reported the two 1911 Norfolk White-winged Black Terns.
Biography Rector at Brunstead for half a century.
Obituary British Birds 18: 197; Ibis 1925: 260.
Bird, W. F. W. ( - ) Gray's Inn, London.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1847 Norfolk Little Crake.
Birkbeck, Robert ( - ) Keswick, Norwich, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Enquired about the rejected 1853 Cumbria Swallow-tailed Kite.
Bishop, A. ( - ) Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1888 Norfolk Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Bishop, Hugh A. ( - 04/09/1906) Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Saw the 1891 Norfolk White Stork. Saw the rejected 1901 Norfolk Black Stork. Saw the 1903 Norfolk Common Crane. Saw the two 1905 Norfolk Black Storks.
Biography Punt-gunner. Had travelled to Holland to shoot from a punt. Drowned on the Bar, Blakeney Harbour; his body picked up on the 16th. His fishing boat capsized in rough weather and presumable he got tangled in the sails and drowned.
Bishop, R. ( - ) Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Saw the 1931 Norfolk Greater Flamingo.
Biography Warden, Cley Marshes.
Bishop, W. F. ( - ) Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Found the 1947 Norfolk Solitary Sandpiper. Saw the 1948 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpiper.
Biography Warden, Cley Marshes.
Bispham, T. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1944 Buckinghamshire Aquatic Warbler.
Bissenden, John ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1867 Sussex Baillon's Crake.
Bisset ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the pre 1869 Somerset Roller.
Bisshopp, Cecil H. ( - ) Oban, Argyll.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1891 Outer Hebrides Siberian White Crane. Preserved the 1891 Argyll Dowitcher sp. Recorded the 1905 Highland Gyr Falcon. Preserved the 1907 Outer Hebrides American Wigeon.
Blackburne, John ( - ) Dorking, Surrey.
Bird Notes Found the 1894/95 Surrey Purple Swamphen.
Biography Nephew to William Borrer of Cowfold, Sussex.
Blackmore, Henry ( - ) Crane Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Examined the 1871 Wiltshire Great Bustard.
Blackmore, Henry ( - )
Bird Notes Presented the two 1825 Yorkshire Great Bustards to Salisbury Museum.
Blackwall, John (20/01/1790 - 11/05/1881) b. Crumpsall Hall, Manchester; d. Llanrwst, Denbighshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1807 Greater Manchester Little Crake in 1829. Recorded the pre1829 Yorkshire Great Snipe. Recorded the pre1829 Lancashire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1830 Lancashire Rose-coloured Starling.
Biography Eminent Zoologist; birds and spiders was his interest. He lived at Llanrwst from 1833-81. Wrote letters to Charles Darwin.
Blackwood, G. C. ( - ) Dundee, Angus & Dundee.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1922 Angus & Dundee Gyr Falcon.
Blain, A. ( - ) Galson Lodge, Ness, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
Bird Notes Shot the 1913 Outer Hebrides Sora.
Blair, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1948 Cornwall Great White Egret.
Blair, R. H. (1892 - 1980) Cornwall.
Bird Notes Saw the 1943 Cornwall Little Egret. Saw the rejected 1945 Cornwall Common Rosefinch. Saw the 1948 Cornwall Great White Egret.
Biography Robinson (2003) says: 'Past Chairman of Cornwall Bird Watching Preservation Society and Editor of its annual report, prominent Cornish ornithologist of the early to mid-20th century and visitor to Scilly.'
Obituary Birds in Cornwall 1980: 9.
Blake, E. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Kent Long-billed Dowitcher. Saw the two 1947 Sussex Pectoral Sandpipers. Saw and recorded the 1948 Sussex White-rumped Sandpiper.
Blake, F. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Sussex White-rumped Sandpiper.
Blake, George ( - ) Hampshire.
Bird Notes Found the 1947 Hampshire Roller.
Biography Keeper in New Forest.
Blake, W. ( - ) Suffolk.
Bird Notes Shot the 1854 Suffolk Great Snipe and informed Babington.
Blake-Humphrey, Harvey ( - ) Wroxham, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Bought the rejected 1876 Norfolk Purple Swamphen.
Blanks, Robert ( - ) Maldon, Essex.
Bird Notes Bought and preserved the 1871 Essex Red-breasted Goose.
Blatchford ( - ) Blatchford, Devon.
Bird Notes Owned the 1840 Devon Squacco Heron.
Blathwayt, Rev. Francis Linley (11/07/1875 - 30/06/1953) Doddington Rectory, Lincoln, Lincolnshire; Melbury Osmond, Dorset; Dyrham Rectory, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Examined the 1900 Lincolnshire Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1902 Lincolnshire Red-footed Falcon. Recorded the 1906 Lincolnshire Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Recorded the 1909 Lincolnshire Lanceolated Warbler. Recorded the 1909 Lincolnshire Red-breasted Flycatcher. Rejected the 1906 Lincolnshire Rustic Bunting. Recorded and examined the 1916 Lincolnshire White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1920 Dorset Wallcreeper. Recorded the 1925 Dorset Alpine Swift. Recorded the 1945 Somerset Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1948 Channel Is. Wallcreeper. Recorded the 1948 Dorset Green-winged Teal.
Biography Rector. Secretary of the Vertebrate Zoology Section of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union about the period of the first World War. He moved to Melbury, Dorset in 1916. In the Transactions of the Union in 1914 he published the first list of birds for Lincolnshire; some of the statements made here don't stand up to today's knowledge and are best treated with caution. President of the Ornithological Section of the Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society, 1920-49. Author of the bird section for the Victoria County History (Somerset).
Obituary British Birds 47: 303-304; Report on Somerset Birds 1953: 2-3
Blezard, Ernest ( - ) Cumbria.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1920 Cumbria Great Snipe. Recorded the 1930 Cumbria Snowy Owl. Recorded the 1947 Cumbria Cream-coloured Courser.
Biography Author.
Bligh, S. ( - )
Bird Notes Bought the 1865 Norfolk Purple Heron from a Norwich fishmarket. Saw the 1901 Norfolk Woodchat Shrike.
Blight, John Thomas (27/10/1835 - 1885?) Redruth, Cornwall.
Bird Notes
Biography Author and wood-engraver. Having read this book there are casual notices of rare birds whereby all are introduced as "one lately seen or obtained", with very little else of scientific value. Did thirteen woodcuts of E. H. Rodd's specimens.
Blofeld, T. J. ( - ) Hoveton, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1862 Norfolk Purple Heron.
Blow, W. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1854 Yorkshire Little Bustard.
Blunt ( - ) Adderbury Manor, Oxfordshire.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1912 Oxfordshire Common Rosefinch.
Blyth, Arthur W. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1906 Norfolk Great Snipe.
Blyth, Edward (23/12/1810 - 27/12/1873) Tooting, London; The High Beeches, near Crawley, Sussex.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1837-38 London American Wigeon. Examined the rejected 1866 Greater London Orphean Warbler.
Biography Author. Various birds named in honour of him including Blyth’s Reed Warbler and Blyth’s Pipit. He wrote various articles under the nom de plume of "Zoophilus". After being diagnosed with poor health and told to seek warmer climes he took up the post of Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for 22 years prior to 1864. He had increased the bird collection to the third largest in the world outside of Europe and North America. He returned to England in 1862 writing many papers to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, The Zoologist and The Ibis.
Blythe ( - ) Cleveland Street, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected pre 1890 Yorkshire Sooty Tern.
Boase, Henry (1892 - 23/03/1974) Invergowrie, Dundee, Perthshire.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Angus American Wigeon.
Bodenham, Thomas (1804 - 18/12/1873) Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1865 Shropshire Red-footed Falcon. Owned the 1866 Shropshire Richard's Pipit.
Bolam, George (08/11/1859 - 25/10/1934) Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Examined the 1818 Northumberland Red-breasted Goose. Recorded the 1862 Yorkshire Purpel Heron. Owned the 1871 Northumberland Little Bittern. Recorded the 1877 Northumberland Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded and owned the 1879 Northumberland Upland Sandpiper. Examined and recorded the pre 1882 Highland Two-barred Crossbill. Examined the 1883 Borders Ivory Gull. Recorded and owned the 1883 Northumberland Red-breasted Flycatcher. Recorded and owned the 1884 Northumberland Squacco Heron. Recorded and examined the 1885 Northumberland Glossy Ibis. Recorded and examined the 1885 Northumberland Greater Spotted Eagle. Preserved and owned the 1886 Northumberland Little Bittern. Examined the pre1889 Northumberland Night Heron. Examined the 1889 Northumberland Roller. Owned the 1890 Northumberland Night Heron. Examined the 1904 Borders Little Bittern. Examined the 1894 Northumberland Roller. Recorded the 1909 Yorkshire Glossy Ibises.
Biography Land Agent for the Crossman Estates at Cheswick, Berwick. Author of county avifauna. Treasurer of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.
Obituary Ibis 1935: 443; Naturalist 1935: 4-7.
Bolam, H. G. ( - ) Rutland, Leicestershire.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1940 Leicestershire Common Crane.
Bolam ( - ) Northumberland.
Bird Notes Grandfather of George Bolam. Shot the 1830-32 Northumberland White-billed Diver.
Bold, Thomas John ( - ) Bigg Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1845 Northumberland Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1846 Northumberland Richard's Pipit. Recorded the 1848 Durham Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded the 1854 Cumbria Great Bustard. Recorded the 1855 Northumberland Pectoral Sandpiper.
Bolitho ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1943 Cornwall Little Egret.
Bolitho ( - ) Devonport, Devon.
Bird Notes Owned the 1835 Devon Little Bittern.
Biography Collector.
Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (24/05/1803 - 1857) b. Paris, France.
Biography His father was the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
George Ord in 1815 named a gull Sterna Philadephia while in 1826 Bonaparte had named it Larus capistratus, but in 1831, Richardson and Swainson suggested the name of Larus Bonapartii in their Fauna Boreali-Americana. From that day it was known as Bonaparte’s Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia (Ord, 1815).
Obituary Proceedings of the Linnean Society 1859.
Bonar, I. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded 1945 Somerset Snowy Owl.
Bond, Frederick (22/02/1811 - 10/08/1889) Kingsbury, South Hampstead, Staines, London.
Bird Notes Owned the 1840 Greater London Little Bittern. Owned the 1841 Surrey/Middlesex Alpine Swift. Owned and recorded the 1842 Greater London Great Snipe. Owned the rejected 1842 Greater London Purple Martin. Recorded and owned the rejected 1843 Sussex Wilson's Storm-petrel. Recorded the 1843 Sussex Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Owned the pre1843 Greater London Pine Grosbeak. Owned the rejected 1844 Greater London Red-winged Blackbird. Examined the rejected 1845 Lancashire Pine Grosbeak. Recorded and owned the 1847 Greater London Little Bittern. Owned the 1851 Greater London Great Snipe. Owned the rejected pre 1852 Greater London Spotted Sandpiper. Owned the rejected 1854 Shetland Red-throated Pipit. Owned the rejected 1855 Surrey Siberian Thrush. Recorded the 1859 Sussex Serin. Owned the pre1866 Greater London Dowitcher sp. Recorded and saw the eleven 1869 Sussex Richard's Pipits. Recorded the two 1869 Sussex Tawny Pipits. Recorded and examined the 1869 Sussex White-winged Lark. Recorded the rejected 1869 Sussex Citril Finch. Recorded the 1869 Sussex Common Rosefinch. Recorded and saw the 1869 Sussex Serin. Saw and recorded the rejected 1869 Sussex Rustic Bunting. Recorded and examined the 1870 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Recorded and examined the 1870 Greater London Common Rosefinch. Recorded and examined the 1870 Sussex Ortolan Bunting. Recorded and owned the 1875 Sussex Tawny Pipit.
Biography Bird collector. Joseph Whitaker of Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, purchased his collection for the varieties it contained. He then proposed to sell of the duplicated ones.
Obituary Zoologist 1889: 401-422.
Bond, F. ( - ) Whittlesford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1851 Highland Gyr Falcon.
Bond, Thomas ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and presented the rejected 1835 Yorkshire Upland Sandpiper to Whitby Museum.
Bond, Thomas ( - ) Swinstead House, near Brampton, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Shot the nine 1846 Cumbria Two-barred Crossbills.
Bonelli, Franco Andrea (10/11/1784 - 1830) b. Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy.
Biography Studied natural history in the Po Valley and at twenty-five published his works which the French naturalist Baron Cuvier was so impressed that he invited him to Paris, where he learnt from Cuvier. In the autumn of 1811 he returned to Italy to become Professor of Zoology at Turin University, being responsible for the zoological museum. Late in the year of 1815 Bonelli had acquired a leaf warbler with a yellowich rump, from the Piedmont, which he despatched to L. A. F. Baillon, in Abbeville. Vieillot examined the specimen and named it Sylvia Bonelli in his Nouveau Dictionaire d’Histoire Naturelle.
Bonfellow ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1810 Norfolk White Stork.
Booth, Edward Thomas (02/06/1840 - 08/02/1890) Brighton, Sussex.
Bird Notes Examined the 1866 Sussex Woodchat Shrike. Examined and recorded the two 1869 Sussex Richard's Pipits. Examined and recorded the 1869 Sussex Common Rosefinch. Shot the 1873 Norfolk White Stork.
Biography Private collector and taxidermist. Shooter. Shot most of his own birds for his collection which is now at the Dyke Road Museum, Brighton. His ambition was to display every British bird in its varying stages of age in his private museum at Brighton. Spent many a day at Hickling, Norfolk, and also Scotland shooting, Bass Rock being one of his favourites, visiting between 1862 and 1874.
Patterson (1905) says: 'He ignored the Wild Birds protection Act, and carried on shooting them in the close season. He employed quite a few of the Breydon puntsmen and paid them well.' Born at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
See Ibis 1909: 388 about his collection. See The Field 16th Sep., 1876: 353.
Obituary Field 15th Feb., 1890: 248; Ibis 1890: 271-272; Zoologist 1890: 92-96.
Booth, Harry Blamires (1866 - 18/09/1941) Bradford and Ryehill, Ben Rhydding, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 1908 Northumberland Brünnich's Guillemot. Recorded the 1921 Pembrokeshire Gyr Falcon.
Biography Correspondent of J. A. Harvie-Brown and known to George Bolam.
Obituary British Birds 35: 227; Ibis 1942: 111.
Bore ( - ) Nottinghamshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1905 Nottinghamshire Dusky Thrush.
Borlase, George ( - ) Helston, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Owned the 1807 Cornwall Bee-eater. Owned the eleven 1828 Cornwall Bee-eater.
Borlase, William (02/02/1695 - 31/08/1772) Ludgvan, Penzance, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Informed Pennant of the 1765 Cornish Roller.
Biography Rector. Penhallurick (1978) says: 'Born at Pendeen and rector of Ludgvan from 1722 until his death, Borlase was the leading antiquarian and naturalist of his day. His Antiquities of Cornwall (1754) and Observations on…Scilly (1756) were followed by the Natural History of Cornwall in 1758. He was interested in most natural phenomena though his ornithological material was largely second hand, much coming from Carew, and Moyle via Tonkin.' Robinson (2003) adds: 'Visited Scilly during summer of 1752, making several early observations on the birds of the islands.'
Borrer, C. D. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the 1920 At sea Sora.
Borrer, Clifford J. ( - ) Chelsea, London; Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1907 Norfolk Richard's Pipit. Recorded the 1907 Norfolk Parrot Crossbill. Recorded the 1910 Norfolk Barred Warbler. Shot and recorded the 1912 Norfolk Aquatic Warbler. Saw the 1921 Norfolk Glossy Ibis. Recorded the 1927 Norfolk Kentish Plover. Owned the 1945 Norfolk Rose-coloured Starling. Owned the 1948 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpiper.
Biography His collection is now at the Museum of the Department of Zoology at Cambridge University.
Borrer, jun., William (18/01/1814 - 22/10/1898) Henfield, Sussex; Brook Hill, Cowfold, Horsham, Sussex.
Bird Notes Owned the 1834 Sussex Bee-eater. Informed Yarrell of the 1835 Sussex Little Crake. Recorded and owned the 1844 Sussex Nutcracker. Owned the 1845 Sussex Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1845 Sussex Broad-billed Sandpiper. Owned the 1845 Lincolnshire Great Snipe. Owned the 1847 Somerset Hawk Owl. Owned the 1847 Norfolk Roller. Owned the 1850 Sussex Glossy Ibis. Owned to 1853 Sussex Aquatic Warbler. Recorded and examined the 1854 Sussex Crane. Sent the 1854 Sussex Rufous Bush Robin to Yarrell for examination. Recorded and owned the rejected 1857 Sussex Tengmalm's Owl. Owned the 1858 Wight Squacco Heron. Saw and recorded the 1865 Sussex White-tailed Eagle. Owned the rejected 1866 Sussex Wilson's Storm-petrel. Owned the 1869 Sussex Little Crake. Owned the 1869 Sussex Richard's Pipit. Owned the 1870 Sussex Parrot Crossbill. Owned the 1871 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Recorded and owned the 1881 Sussex Crested Lark. Recorded the 1883 Sussex American Bittern. Owned the rejected 1884 Sussex Spotted Sandpiper. Owned one of the 1889 Surrey Two-barred Crossbills. Examined the 1894/95 Surrey Purple Swamphen. Examined the pre 1898 Greater London Eagle Owl.
Biography Author of County avifauna. Booth (1901) says: 'In September, 1901, the valuable collection of British (and especially Sussex) birds, made by the late William Borrer, of Cowfold, was purchased by the town, and many of his rarest birds have been added to this collection [Dyke Road Museum, Brighton].' Went on shooting trips with E. T. Booth.
Obituary Ibis 1899: 168.
Borrett, F. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1871 Norfolk White's Thrush.
Borstock, E. G. ( - ) Newmarket, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Examined and recorded the 1884 Suffolk/Cambridgeshire Roller.
Borthwick ( - ) Mindrum, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Owned the 1885 Northumberland Glossy Ibis.
Biography Farmer.
Bost, James ( - ) Blackpool, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1853 Lancashire Night Heron.
Boston, F. K. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Northamptonshire Greater Yellowlegs.
Boston, F. K. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Northamptonshire Greater Yellowlegs.
Boswall, Jeffery H. ( - ) Sussex.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the two 1948 Sussex Pectoral Sandpipers.
Boult, E. J. ( - ) Potter Heigham, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1886 Norfolk Ferruginous Duck.
Boulton, W. W. ( - ) Beverley, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded and owned the 1862 Yorkshire Little Bustard. Recorded the 1862-3 Yorkshire Alpine Accentor. Recorded and examined the 1863 Yorkshire Little Bittern. Recorded and examined the 1863 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded and examined the 1863 Yorkshire Great Snipe. Recorded and owned the 1864 Yorkshire Red-footed Falcon. Recorded and examined the 1864 Yorkshire Great Bustard. Recorded the 1865 Yorkshire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the rejected 1866 Yorkshire Parrot Crossbill. Owned the 1872 Lincolnshire Bee-eater.
Biography Contributor to various journals.
Boulton ( - ) Beverley, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Bought the rejected 1810 Norfolk pair of Collared Pratincoles and sold them on to T. Boyton. Owned the rejected 1831 Suffolk Spotted Sandpiper.
Bourne, J. ( - ) Ampfield House, Romsey, Hampshire.
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1891 Hampshire Great Bustard.
Bourne, William Richmond Postle (1930 - 2021) b. Bedford. Exmouth, Hove, Bermuda, Aberdeen.
Bird Notes One of his main papers was ‘Long-distance vagrancy in the petrels’ (Ibis 109: 141-167) whereby he assessed all records of past seabirds (prior to 1965) and his decisions were adopted by the BOURC (1971).
Bovill, George ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1896 Wiltshire Cream-coloured Courser.
Bowie, A. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1868 Aberdeenshire Little Bittern.
Boyd, Alexander (16/01/1873 - 02/04/1910) b. Cranbrook, Kent.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1888 Ayrshire Night Heron.
Biography His brother Claud died of fever in October 1904 while they were carrying out an orthithological survey near Lake Chad. He returned to England in 1907, but returned to Lake Chad in 1909 to visit his brothers grave and later he was murdered by natives and buried along side of him.
Boyd, Arnold Whitworth (1885 - 1959) Cheshire.
Bird Notes Wrote the details of the 1901 Lancashire Lesser Kestrel. Saw and recorded the ten 1920 Cornwall Glossy Ibises. Saw and recorded the 1922 Cheshire Whiskered Tern. Recorded the 1943 Lancashire Black-eared Wheatear. Saw the 1945 Greater Manchester Black-winged Stilt. Saw the 1945 Greater Manchester Great Snipe. Saw the 1948 Cheshire Pectoral Sandpiper.
Biography Assistant Editor in British Birds. In a Note in the third volume of British Birds, the late T. A. Coward mentioned some ducks seen at Marbury Mere in Cheshire on l0th April 1910 by one A. W. Boyd, and during the space of nearly 50 years which has passed since then only three volumes—two in the First World War and one in the Second—have appeared without some contribution from him. On 1st March 1944 he became an Assistant Editor and he continued to share the editorial load until his death, in his home county of Cheshire, on 16th October 1959. These simple facts begin to show how much he meant to this journal and how keenly he will be missed. Born in 1885, the younger son of James and Mary Boyd of Altrincham, he was educated at Rugby and Oxford. In early life he was a fine Rugger player, turning out for Sale and for Cheshire on many occasions. He also did much climbing and he once survived a fall of 1,800 feet (into snow) on the Obergabelhorn.
Early in the First World War he left for overseas service in Egypt with the 7th Lancashire Fusiliers and quickly rose to the rank of Captain. In 1915 he won the Military Cross in Gallipoli for gallantry in covering the evacuation from Suvla. He was twice wounded and one legacy of the war was the loss of an eye. In spite of this, he managed to rejoin the army and became a Major in the Second World War. Even before 1914 he had shown by his records of Willow Tits in the field that he was an exceptionally gifted and thorough observer. He had early extended his attention from natural habitats to sewage farms, the attraction of which to migrants he was among the first to recognise. From 1918 onwards his contributions in the form of notes became more frequent, not only from Cheshire and Lancashire, but also from Cornwall where in September 1920 he secured a most indifferent but interesting snapshot of a flock of Glossy Ibises at Marazion (antea, vol. xiv, p. 137).
One of his chief bird-watching companions between the wars was Kenneth Fisher, Head Master of Oundle, who was his brother-in-law and the father of James Fisher. Earlier he had been out much with T. A. Coward and Charles Oldham, both among the best field observers of their time. In the 'twenties he became a keen ringer, in some years achieving the second highest total in Britain. Already a third of a century ago he was obtaining significant results from systematic trapping; in this he was one of the pioneers and some of his most notable work was on Tree Sparrows and Swallows which he studied around his small farm, Frandley, in the Cheshire parish of Antrobus. He also recognised early on the great possibilities of regular observations at reservoirs, giving much attention to those in Staffordshire and seeking to fill in the hitherto fragmentary picture of inland movements and distributions of waders and waterfowl. He was remarkably well-informed, not only from his first-hand knowledge, but also from his close contacts with neighbouring observers of all sorts and ages and with ornithologists in other parts of the country.
Like his friend T. A. Coward he was so deeply rooted in his Cheshire region that he contributed a special character and flavour to British ornithology. Cheshire country, Cheshire ways, Cheshire dialect and Cheshire humour were for him something to be enjoyed with gusto; and he would never fail to raise his hat to any passing Magpie, explaining that this was an old Cheshire custom. Yet despite this he was always ready to appreciate other places and other people. Indeed, his intuitive responsiveness to others was a significant handicap to him as a book reviewer and an assessor of sight records, when his kindliness sometimes got the better of his critical judgement. Yet he spoke his mind with forthrightness, although never brusquely or without tact, and he was a vigilant opponent of verbosity, jargon or sheer dullness in ornithological literature. His own beautifully small script and pithy sentences, with plenty of down-to-earth humour, were always a pleasure to read. He was a most interesting and agreeable companion, indoors or out, and had a great capacity for making friends. Full of character himself he was a connoisseur of character in others.
His occupation as a Manchester yarn agent seemed badly matched with his love of the outdoors and of country scenes and ways, and above all with his skill and enthusiasm in natural history, especially ornithology. His interests were, however, unusually wide, and he was remarkably well-read with a keen critical sense and a flair for good straightforward English without any nonsense about it. Characteristically, The Wrong Box was among his favourite books. His wife Violet, who died before him, was a talented writer of both prose and verse, and he himself contributed regular nature notes to "A Country Diary" in The Manchester Guardian. A decade ago these notes of many years were collected together as The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man. This delightful book gave pleasure to many, but his most ambitious work was A Country Parish, published in the "New Naturalist" series in 1951. In this book he wove together an astonishing collection of facts about the Cheshire village of Great Budworth and its neighbourhood, showing how the birds, mammals, insects and plants were influenced by the human history and the effects of man on the land. Hardly any other ornithologist of his time, or indeed any other naturalist, could have written so broad and many-sided a book on...a country parish.
Arnold Boyd was called to office in many fields in the world of ornithology. From 1938 to 1943 he served on the Committee of the British Ornithologists' Union, and from 1953 to 1955 was one of the Union's Vice-Presidents. The British Trust for Ornithology greatly interested Boyd from its very beginning in 1933 and he served on its Council for a number of years, becoming Chairman in 1949-50. Nor was he content to sit back in an advisory capacity and let others do the work. In 1934 and 1935 he piloted one of the B.T.O.'s first national enquiries, that into the brood-size and density of the Swallow (antea, vol. xxix, pp. 3-21; and vol. xxx, pp. 98-116), and he was an active member of the Bird-Ringing Committee for a number of years right up to his death. Nearer home, he compiled the 'Reports on Birds' for the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee from 1914 to 1949. But, in spite of his many commitments, he never lost his enjoyment of familiar birds in familiar places and, above all, he was always ready to help and advise the young; indeed, this was one of his greatest pleasures and many a now expert ornithologist owes much to his wise guidance. He was ahead of his time, too, in being a keen conservationist. He never had any illusion that, if there were to go on being interesting creatures to watch in pleasant places, someone would have to work hard to protect them and their habitats. He was an active member of the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, for whom he looked after Marbury Mere and other Cheshire sites. He was also an energetic Fellow of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and was long a member of its Council he played a leading part in the work of the Home Office Advisory Committee which framed the basis for the Protection of Birds Act 1954. Not content with such indirect measures, he was sworn in as a Special Constable and took his share in bringing to book offenders against the bird protection laws. He managed to do all these things with a twinkle in his remaining eye, as if they were not a duty but good fun. His zest and humour, as well as his common sense and wisdom are not readily replaceable, and for those who knew him life has lost some of its tang.
Obituary British Birds 52: 417-419, plate 65.
Boyd, H. J. ( - ) Bristol, Avon.
Bird Notes Saw the 1947 Somerset December American Wigeon. Recorded the list of Lesser White-fronted Goose at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. Saw the 1949 Lundy Woodchat Shrike. Saw the 1949 Lundy Yellow-browed Warbler. Saw the 1949 Lundy Aquatic Warbler. Saw the 1949 Lundy Icterine Warbler.
Boyd, W. ( - ) Greenock, Clyde.
Bird Notes Obtained the 1868 Lanarkshire Northern Hawk Owl and took it to R. Gray.
Boyd ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1920 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle.
Boyes, Frederick (1842 - 1929) Beverley, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1870 Yorkshire Little Bittern. Saw the 1870 Yorkshire Alpine Swift. Recorded the 1874 Yorkshire Little Bittern. Recorded the three 1887 Yorkshire Great Snipes. Recorded the 1887 Suffolk Great Snipe. Informed W. E. Clarke about the 1888 Yorkshire White Stork. Examined the 1893 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1894 Yorkshire Barred Warbler. Recorded the three 1894 Yorkshire Yellow-browed Warblers. Recorded the 1899 Yorkshire Great Snipe. Recorded the two 1903 Yorkshire Great Snipes. Recorded the 1909 Yorkshire Glossy Ibis.
Biography Associate of W. E. Clarke. Died aged 87.
Obituary Naturalist 1929: 222-223.
Boynton, Henry S. ( - ) Burton Agnes, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1837 Yorkshire Night Heron. Owned the 1860 Yorkshire Tengmalm's Owl. Owned the 1863 Yorkshire Purple Heron. Owned the 1863 Yorkshire Broad-billed Sandpiper. Owned the 1868 Yorkshire Dowitcher sp.
Biography His collection was presented to Hull Municipal Museum in 1910 (Zool. 1910: 34-35).
Boynton, Thomas (1830 - 1919) Ulrome Grange, Lowthorpe, Hull; Bridlington, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Bought the rejected 1810 Norfolk pair of Collared Pratincoles from Dr. Boulton. Reported the 1837 Yorkshire Night Heron in his MS. Owned the 1845 Yorkshire Steller's Eider. Reported the 1863 Yorkshire Purple Heron in his MS. Reported the 1863 Yorkshire Broad-billed Sandpiper in his MS. Shot and recorded the 1869 Yorkshire Tawny Pipit.
Biography Farmer.
Obituary Naturalist 1919: 404.
Boys, William (07/09/1735 - 15/03/1803) Sandwich, Kent.
Bird Notes Collections for a History of Sandwich, 1792.
Biography Surgeon.
Brack, William ( - ) South Byker, Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Bird Notes Presented the 1889 Durham Little Bittern to Hancock Museum.
Bradden, W. ( - ) Guildford, Surrey.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1892 Surrey Ruddy Shelduck. Preserved the 1896 Hampshire Rose-colourd Starling.
Bradshaw, G. W. ( - ) Hastings; Reading, Sussex; Berkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the HR 1895 Sussex Broad-billed Sandpiper. Recorded the two HR 1897 Sussex Roller. Recorded the HR 1901 Sussex Little Bustard.
Brady, F. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1945 Northumberland Surf Scoter.
Braim, John ( - ) Sleights Bridge, Whitby, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the c.1852 Yorkshire Roller.
Brain, R. F. ( - ) Chatham, Kent.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1904 Kent Flamingo.
Braithwaite, C. ( - ) Seaton Carew, Cleveland.
Bird Notes Saw, shot, recorded and owned the 1902 Durham Little Bunting.
Bramhall, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Purchased the imported 1853 Norfolk Eagle Owl.
Biography Brother-in-law of the Rev. G. Jeans.
Brander-Dunbar, J. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1898 Moray & Nairn Great Snipe.
Braund, Harold E. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1930 Essex Alpine Swift.
Braybooke ( - ) Audley En, Saffron Walden, Essex.
Bird Notes The two 1821 Essex Scops Owls were shot on his estate. Owned the 1843 Hertfordshire Rock Thrush.
Brayley ( - ) Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1875 Wight Little Bustard.
Braysley ( - ) Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Shot the two 1862 Yorkshire Malham Great Snipes.
Brazenor Bros. (1863 - 1937) 39, Lewes Road, Brighton, Sussex.
Bird Notes Preserved and recorded the 1893 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Preserved and recorded the 1894 Sussex Tawny Pipit. Preserved the 1909 Sussex American Bittern. Preserved the 1909 Sussex Short-toed Lark. Preserved the two 1918 Sussex Serins.
Biography Unreliable. Noted to buy specimens in Leadenhall Market and pass them off as killed elsewhere.
This successful family firm was started by Robert Brazenor (1839 ? -1903 ?). He and his wife had seven children, five of whom survived into adulthood. They all entered the family business though the girls worked in the furrier shop alongside their mother. They briefly operated at 20, Duke Street, and afterwards they moved to 39 Lewes Road where they remained until they closed down. Robert's style of taxidermy could be described as 'more enthusiastic than accurate.' Brazenor Brothers undertook a great deal of ornithological work for the Rottingdean based collector Frederick W. Lucas, much of which can be seen in the skeleton gallery in the Booth Museum. For many years Alfred, the youngest son, was the mainstay of the business. In this he was joined by his son Herbert Ferris Brazenor.
Bree, Charles Robert (00/02/1811 - 17/10/1886) Stowmarket; Long Melford; Colchester, Suffolk; Essex.
Bird Notes Owned and recorded the 1846 Suffolk Two-barred Crossbill. Recorded the 1850s Essex Little Bustard. Recorded the three 1858-60 Essex Nutcrackers. Recorded and examined the 1860 Essex Little Bustard. Recorded and owned the three 1862 Essex Parrot Crossbills. Owned four 1863 Essex Pallas's Sandgrouse. Owned and recorded the 1866 Essex Little Bittern. Recorded the 1868 Suffolk White-tailed Eagle. Recorded the 1868 Essex Egyptian Vulture. Recorded the 1871 Essex Alpine Swift. Owned the 1873 Essex Red-footed Falcon. Recorded and examined the rejected 1875 Essex Steppe Grey Shrike. Recorded and examined the rejected 1878 Essex Purple Swamphen. Recorded the rejected 1878 Essex Purple Martin. Recorded three 1879-81 Essex Great Snipes. Recorded the rejected 1880-81 Essex Sooty Tern. Recorded the 1881 Essex/Suffolk White Stork.
Biography National Author.
Obituary Zoologist 1886: 482-483.
Brehm, Pastor Christian Ludwig (1787 - 1864) b. Germany.
Biography Author. Most of his 15,000 birds were from central Germany but others were added by exchange. During 1835 he tried to sell his collection to the Zoological Museum at Berlin, but they were not interested. In 1872 Otto Kleinschmidt called at Alfred, his son’s house to view some Marsh Tit skins where he found them in the attic. He therefore contacted Lord Rothschild with a view to buy as they would not last in the attic. This he did and the collection arrived at the Tring Museum in 1900. Ernst Hartert, who was Rothschild’s curator, after examining the collection found 371 type specimens of species and subspecies. In 1931 Brehm’s skins were sold to the AMNH at New York, along with the rest of Rothschild’s skins, but by the early 1960s about a third of them were back in Germany at the ZFMK at Bonn.
At least eleven species or subspecies on the British List bear his authorship.
Brennan ( - ) Foulshaw Moss, Westmoreland, Cumbria.
Bird Notes Obtained the 1848 Cumbria Night Heron.
Biography Head Keeper.
Brewer ( - ) Tuckton, Dorset.
Bird Notes Shot the 1882 Dorset Red-footed Falcon.
Brewis, G. W. ( - ) Chesterford Park, Essex.
Bird Notes Saw the supposed 1889 Essex Scops Owls.
Briggs, A. ( - ) St Andrews, Fife.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1893 Orkney Snowy Owl. Recorded the 1894 Orkney Snowy Owl. Recorded the 1894 Orkney Two-barred Crossbill.
Briggs, C. A. ( - ) Lincoln's Inns Fields, London.
Bird Notes Recorded the two rejected 1895 Kent Crested Larks.
Briggs, John Joseph ( - 00/05/1876) King's Newton, Swarkestone, Derbyshire.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1839 Derbyshire Woodchat Shrike. Saw and recorded the 1841 Derbyshire Snowy Owl. Recorded the 1842 Derbyshire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the rejected breeding 1849 Derbyshire Harlequin Ducks. Recorded the 1850 Derbyshire Glossy Ibis. Recorded and owned 1854 Derbyshire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the two rejected 1859 Derbyshire Red-eyed Vireos. Recorded the rejected 1869 Derbyshire Passenger Pigeon.
Obituary Field 1st Apr., 1876: 388.
Briggs, Thomas Henry (1845 - 23/06/1924) Rock House, Lynmouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the rejected 1908 Devon Alpine Swift.
Obituary Ibis 1925: 261.
Briggs ( - ) Cookham, Berkshire.
Bird Notes Informed R. B. Sharpe about the 1866 Buckinghamshire Bee-eater.
Brigham or Bingham, James ( - )
Bird Notes Identified the 1871 Yorkshire American Bittern.
Brind, Frank ( - ) Chelsfield, Kent.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1888 Norfolk White Stork.
Brisco, Bart., Robert ( - ) Cumbria.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1842 Cumbria Alpine Swift.
BRISTOW, SNR., GEORGE (1838 - 18/03/1923) 15, Silchester Road, St Leonards, Sussex.
Comment Part of the family business of taxidermy, gunsmith and ornithology that started c. 1845 at Silchester Road.
BRISTOW, JNR., GEORGE (30/03/1862 - 14/04/1947) b. Orpington, Kent. Hastings, Sussex.
Business premises at 15, London Road, St Leonards, Sussex and from 1891 at 15, Silchester Road, St Leonards, Sussex.
Notes Restuffed the rejected 1830-40 Suffolk Swallow-tailed Kite. Preserved the rejected 1866 Sussex Wilson's Storm-petrel. Preserved the 1877 Sussex Roller. Preserved the rejected 1884 Kent Ruddy Shelduck. Sold the rejected 1884 Sussex Spotted Sandpiper to Borrer. Preserved the 1891 Sussex Great Bustard. Preserved the rejected HR 1895 Kent Madeiran Storm-petrel. Preserved the rejected HR 1895 Sussex Little Crake. Preserved the rejected HR 1895 Sussex Red-throated Pipit. Preserved the HR 1896 Sussex Icterine Warbler. Preserved the HR 1896 Sussex Melodious Warbler. Preserved the two HR 1897 Sussex Rollers. Preserved the HR 1898 Sussex Woodchat Shrike. Preserved the HR 1900 Sussex Baird's Sandpiper. Preserved the HR 1900 Sussex Melodious Warbler. Preserved the HR 1901 Kent Broad-billed Sandpiper. Preserved the HR 1901 Sussex Roller. Preserved the HR 1901 Sussex Red-throated Pipit. Preserved the HR 1902 Kent White-spotted Bluethroat. Preserved the HR 1903 Norfolk Baird's Sandpiper. Preserved the HR 1904 Sussex Night Heron. Preserved the HR 1904 Sussex Great Reed Warbler. Preserved the HR 1904 Sussex Black-headed Bunting. Preserved the HR 1905 Sussex Squacco Heron. Preserved the HR 1905 Sussex Icterine Warbler. Preserved the HR 1906 Sussex Pectoral Sandpiper. Preserved the HR 1906 Kent White-rumped Sandpiper. Preserved the HR 1906 Sussex Great Reed Warbler. Preserved the HR 1906 Sussex Sardinian Warbler. Preserved the HR 1907 Kent Semipalmated Sandpiper. Preserved the HR 1907 Kent Dowitcher. Preserved the HR 1907 Kent Rufous Bush Robin. Preserved the HR 1908 Sussex Bulwer's Petrel. Preserved the three HR 1908 Kent Killdeers. Preserved the HR 1908 Kent Upland Sandpiper. Preserved the two HR 1908 Sussex Two-barred Crossbills. Preserved the HR 1909 Sussex Red-rumped Swallow. Preserved the HR 1909 Kent Black-throated Thrush. Preserved the 1909 HR Kent Brown Flycatcher. Preserved the HR 1910 Sussex Rufous Bush Robin. Reported the HR 1910 Sussex Rustic Bunting. Preserved the HR 1911 Sussex Isabelline Wheatear. Preserved the HR 1911 Kent Black-throated Thrush. Preserved the HR 1912 Sussex Isabelline Wheatear. Preserved the two rejected 1913 Shetland Barrow's Goldeneye. Preserved the HR 1915 Sussex Black Wheatear. Preserved the HR 1915 Sussex Moustached Warbler. Preserved the HR 1916 Sussex Semipalmated Plover. Preserved the HR 1916 Sussex Dusky Warbler. Recorded the now rejected 1925 Kent Ferruginous Duck. Examined the 1940 Sussex Purple Heron.
Biography Unreliable. The main Taxidermist involved in the "Hastings Rarities" fraud (E. M. Nicholson & I. J. Ferguson-Lees (1962) British Birds 55: 299-336) that involved imported frozen birds passed off as British killed.. Taught by Robert Kent. Taught the art to E. T. Booth.
On death his effects amounted to £7898. 9s, 4d. and were left to his wife Ketura Eliza Bristow whom he had married in 1886.
Britton, George ( - ) Tresco, Isles of Scilly.
Bird Notes Shot the 1886 Scilly White's Thrush.
Biography Butler to A. A. Dorrien-Smith.
Broadbent ( - ) Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1854 Lincolnshire Purple Heron.
Broadhurst, H. Brooks ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1896 Dumfries & Galloway Great Snipe.
Brock, E. R. ( - ) Dumbarton, Clyde.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the three rejected 1947 Clyde Ferruginous Ducks.
Brocklehurst, W. S. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1886 Shropshire Great Reed Warbler.
Broderip, William J. (21/11/1789 - 27/02/1859) Thomas Street, London.
Bird Notes Owned the 1861 Northumberland Tengmalm's Owl.
Biography Lawyer. Police Magistrate. Member of the Zoological Society.
Brodie, D. ( - )
Bird Notes Recorded the two 1889 Surrey Two-barred Crossbills.
Brodrick, William (1814 - 21/12/1888) Belford, Northumberland; Chudleigh, Devon.
Bird Notes Saw the c.1840 Highland Gyr Falcon. Owned the 1846 Northumberland Cream-coloured Courser.
Biography Barrister. Exhibited a Lanner at the Club meeting in Berwick (Trans. vol. vi. p. 320, 1845) of unknown origin. Nephew of P. J. Selby, a skilled falconer, ornithologist, taxidermist and artist.
Obituary Zoologist 1889: 139-142.
Brogden, T. J. H. ( - 1899) Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1896 Lincolnshire Great Snipe. Recorded the c. 1896 Lincolnshire Great Snipe.
Brook, R. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Nottinghamshire Pectoral Sandpiper.
Brooke, A. R. ( - ) Leeds, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1905 Pembrokeshire Great Snipe.
Brooke, F. ( - ) Brauncewell, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Purchased the 1866 Nottinghamshire Little Bustard.
Brooke-Leeds, A. ( - ) Hampshire.
Bird Notes Reported the 1881 Hampshire Roller to Kelsall.
Brooker, B. T. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1947 Kent Ivory Gull.
Brooker, R. T. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1948 Sussex Pectoral Sandpipers.
Brookes ( - ) Worcester, Worcestershire.
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected 1855 Worcestershire Crested Cardinal Finch?
Brooks, E. P. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1886 Cork Great Snipe.
Biography Soldier.
Brooks, Robert ( - ) Mistley, Essex.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1892 Essex White Stork.
Brotherston, Andrew (28/03/1834 - 16/03/1891) Shedden Park Road, Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1872 Northumberland Night Heron. Recorded the 1873 Northumberland Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded the 1875 Northumberland Roller. Recorded the rejected 1877 Northumberland Rose-coloured Starling. Preserved and recorded the 1878 Borders White's Thrush. Recorded the rejected 1879 Borders White's Thrush. Preserved the pre1882 Borders Roller. Preserved the 1885 Northumberland Glossy Ibis.
Biography Bolam (1912) says: 'Andrew Brotherston, taxidermist, of Kelso, born at Eccles, Berwickshire, on 28th March, 1834, and dying at Kelso on 16th March, 1891, was one of those unassuming men who have done so much for local science, of whom the Border district has always been prolific, whose memory is jealously cherished, and whose work lives. Of humble parentage, and largely self-instructed, he was one of our most careful and accurate naturalists, and had he chosen might have risen high above the simple calling which never-the-less satisfied him. Preferring the greater liberty which his occupation gave him, he from time to time declined more prominent and lucrative situations that were offered him, and seldom strayed far from his native district. With its natural history, however, few were better acquainted, and any statement he made regarding it could always be unreservedly accepted. He was an authority on willows, and some of the less popular families of plants, and a valued correspondent of the late Dr. Francis Day, during the publication of that gentleman's standard work on British Fishes. In ornithology his chief communications were made to the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and have been freely quoted in these pages; but he wrote also in a number of other periodicals, and was, besides, a mine of information on the birds of the Kelso neighbourhood, upon which the writer seldom indeed had to call in vain.'
His obituary notice, by Mr Thomas Craig, will be found in the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Vol XIII., pp. 399-402.'
Brotherston ( - ) Alloa, Stirlingshire.
Bird Notes Owned one of the three 1863 Stirlingshire Pallas's Sandgrouse.
Brotherston ( - ) Swordale, Ross-shire, Highland.
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1892 Highland Roller.
Brown, Adam ( - ) Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Northeast Scotland.
Bird Notes Shot the 1907 Northeast Scotland Glossy Ibis.
Brown, B. H. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1854 Lincolnshire Little Bustard.
Brown, David ( - ) Filey, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Preserved the 1875 Yorkshire Ivory Gull. Possessed a rejected 1876 Yorkshire Laughing Gull. Preserved the rejected 1897 White-billed Diver.
Brown, David H. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the two 1948 Sussex Pectoral Sandpipers. Saw the 1948 Norfolk White-rumped Sandpiper.
Brown, Edwin ( - ) Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1852 Staffordshire Sooty Tern. Recorded and owned the 1856 Derbyshire Purple Heron. Recorded and owned one of the two rejected 1859 Derbyshire Red-eyed Vireos. Recorded the 1874 Staffordshire Squacco Heron.
Brown, Harvey ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1900 Forth Great Snipe.
Brown, James ( - ) Norwich, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Obtained the 1819 Norfolk Savi's Warbler. Received the 1820 Norfolk Savi's Warbler and presented it to E. Lombe.
Brown, J. ( - ) Banffshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1848 Northeast Scotland Roller.
Biography Gamekeeper to R. C. Nisbet.
Brown, James ( - 1900) Forres, Moray & Nairn.
Bird Notes Preserved and recorded the 1892 Moray & Nairn Ruddy Shelduck.
Biography Correspondent of J. A. Harvie-Brown.
Brown, John ( - ) Colwick, Nottinghamshire.
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1871 Nottinghamshire Black Stork.
Brown, R. H. ( - ) Cumbria.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1923 Cumbria Great Snipe. Saw the 1940 Cumbria Little Crake.
Brown, R. S. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1948 Surrey Pratincole sp.
Brown, S. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1890 Norfolk immature female King Eider.
Brown, W. ( - ) Elm Lodge, Devizes, Wiltshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1871 Wiltshire Great Bustard.
Brown ( - ) Tongham, near Aldershot, Surrey.
Bird Notes Saw the rejected 1867 Wight Rock Thrush.
Browne, Charles ( - ) Blo' Norton, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Sent the c.1857 Suffolk Baillon's Crake to the taxidermist.
Biography Rector.
Browne, Montagu (1837 - 1923) Leicester, Leicestershire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1849 Leicestershire White Stork. Recorded the 1851 Leicestershire White Stork. Rejected the 1865 Leivcestershire Red-footed Falcon. Recorded the 1870 Leicestershire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1873 Leicestershire White Stork. Recorded the pre1875 Leicestershire Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded and examined the 1885 Leicestershire Great Snipe.
Biography Author of County avifauna. Taxidermist. Curator at Leicester Town Musuem.
Browne, P. W. P. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the breeding 1945 Nottinghamshire Black-winged Stilts.
Browne ( - ) Callaley, Northumberland.
Bird Notes Purchased the two 1822/3 Northumberland Snowy Owls.
Brownswood, F. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1914 Caernarfonshire Ferruginous Duck.
Bruce, J. ( - ) Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1876 Orkney Great Bustard.
Bruce, jun., Tom ( - ) Shetland.
Bird Notes Owned the 1928 Shetland Richard's Pipit. Owned the 1929 Shetland Lesser Grey Shrike. Obtained the 1933 Shetland Great Snipe. Owned the 1934 Shetland Icterine Warbler. Obtained the 1935 Shetland Great Snipe. Saw the 1936 Shetland Great Snipe. Obtained the 1936 Shetland Short-toed Lark.
Bruce, Samuel (1879 - 1960) Lerwick, Shetland.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1914 Shetland Barred Warbler. Examined the 1928 Shetland Richard's Pipit. Saw the five 1936 Shetland Common Rosefinches. Sent the 1936 Shetland Rustic Bunting to George Waterston. Shot and recorded the 1945 Shetland Greenish Warbler. Shot and recorded the 1947 Shetland Red-flanked Bluetail. Shot and recorded the 1947 Shetland Collared Flycatcher.
Obituary Scottish Birds 1: 240-241.
Brune, O. G. P. ( - ) Prideaux Place, Padstow, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Informed E. H. Rodd of the 1859 Cornwall Little Bustard.
Brünnich, Morten Thrane (30/09/1737 - 19/09/1827) b. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Biography Brünnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia (Linnaeus) was named in his honour as he was the first person to describe his species and the Common Guillemot together; the two species had often been confused as one and the same.
Bryson, Archibald Gordon Stuart (1912 - 1999)
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Fair Isle Yellow-breasted Bunting. Saw and recorded the 1948 Lothian Pectoral Sandpiper.
Obituary Scottish Birds 20: 46-48.
Buccleuch, Duke ( - ) Lothian.
Bird Notes Owned the pre1877 Lothian Squacco Heron.
Buckley, Henry ( - ) Calthorpe Street, Birmingham.
Bird Notes Reported that the 1857 Warwickshire Harlequin was a Scaup.
Biography Egg collector.
Buckley, Thomas Edward (03/04/1846 - 04/11/1902) Millerton, Inverness, Highland.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1887 Caithness Gyr Falcon. Recorded and owned the 1888 Highland Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1889 Highland Gyr Falcon. Examined the 1890 Outer Hebrides Ivory Gull. Recorded the 1894 Highland White-tailed Eagle. Recorded and examined the 1895 Shetland Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1896 Highland Gyr Falcon. Recorded the 1896 Sutherland Snowy Owl. Recorded and examined the 1898 Moray & Nairn Great Snipe. Recorded and examined the 1900 Skye Gyr Falcon. Recorded and examined the 1900 Skye Ivory Gull.
Biography Naturalist. Author of Scottish County avifaunas. Correspondent of J. A. Harvie-Brown.
Obituary Ibis 1903: 270-272
Bucknill, F. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the three rejected 1883 Sussex Black-winged Stilts.
Bucknill, John Alexander Strachey (1873 - 1926) Hylands House, Epsom, Surrey.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1845 Surrey Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1853 Surrey Woodchat Shrike. Recorded the 1855 Surrey Night Heron. Recorded the c.1870 Surrey Little Bittern. Recorded the three 1876 Surrey White-tailed Eagles. Recorded the 1896 Surrey Rose-coloured Starling.
Biography Author of County avifauna. His Birds of Surrey was proof read by J. E. Harting.
Obituary Ibis 1927: 139-140.
Bull, Arthur J. ( - ) Dorset.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1945 Dorset Ferruginous Duck.
Buller, Richard ( - ) Lanreath, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Examined the 1832 Cornwall Little Bustard. Saw the two 1851 Devon Collared Pratincoles.
Buller, W. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1851 Devon Collared Pratincoles.
Bullmore, William King (1834 - 1908) Falmouth, Cornwall.
Bird Notes Identified the 1854 Cornwall Great Bustard. Owned and recorded the 1865 Cornwall Upland Sandpiper. Owned one of the 1869 Cornwall Richard's Pipit. Examined the 1873 Cornwall American Bittern.
Biography Penhallurick (1978) says: 'Bullmore was another medical man who, like W. P. Cocks, wrote on the birds of the Falmouth area. His account first appeared in the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society report for 1866 and issued separately in 1867; it deals with birds, fishes and other vertebrata "procured during the last six years".'
Bullock, William (c.1773 - 1829) London; Liverpool, Lancashire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1807 Lancashire Collared Pratincole. Saw the rejected nesting 1812 Orkney King Eider. Shot and owned the 1812 Shetland Collared Pratincole. Owned the 1812 Shetland Snowy Owl. Examined the 1818 Northumberland Red-breasted Goose.
Biography Spent at least £30,000 forming the Bullock museum which started life in Sheffield in the late 1790s, then was moved to Liverpool and finally in 1809 to London where it was housed in the Egyptian Hall at Piccadilly containing about 3,000 birds. It was sold in 1819, the sale lasting twenty-six days and attracting ornithologists from Europe as well as the home countries.
Bullock ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1852 East Sussex Common Crane.
Bulteel, Rev. Courtenay C. J. ( - ) Kingston-cum-Holbeton, Devon.
Bird Notes Examined the 1840 Devon Squacco Heron in 1873. Shot seven of the the eight 1849 Devon Night Herons. Recorded the 1873 Norfolk Eagle Owl.
Biography Rector of Kingston-cum-Holbeton.
Bulteel, J. (- ) Pamflete, Devon.
Bird Notes Shot the 1887 Devon Little Bittern.
Bulwer, Rev. James (21/03/1794 - 11/06/1879) b. Aylsham, Norfolk.
Biography Bulwer was more interested in archaeology and conchology than ornithology. His correspondence with Sir William Jardine appears to have been the reason that Jardine with Prideaux John Selby published a description in Illustrations of Ornithology (1828) of a seabird species they named Procellaria Bulwerii and gave it its English name. Today the species scientific name is known as Bulweria bulwerrii (Jardine and Selby).
Bunbury, C. J. F. ( - ) Barton Hall, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Owned the c.1820 Suffolk Little Bustard.
Bunce, H. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1948 Yorkshire Demoiselle Crane. Examined the 1949 Yorkshire Greenish Warbler.
Bund, J. Willis (- )
Bird Notes Shot and recorded the 1886 Ceredigion Great Snipe. Owned and sent the rejected 1890 Gould's Petrel to Harting.
Bunker, T. ( - 1915) Goole, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1881 Yorkshire Little Bittern. Reported the misidentified pre 1881 Yorkshire Baillon's Crake in his MS.
Biography Schoolmaster; HM Inspector of Taxes.
Obituary Naturalist 1915: 176-177.
Bunn, Howard ( - ) Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Bird Notes Preserved and recorded the 1886 Suffolk Purple Heron. Preserved the 1898 Suffolk Little Bustard.
Burd, A. C. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1946 Lancashire Bee-eaters.
Burdon, Rowland ( - )
Bird Notes Shot and owned the 1872 Durham White's Thrush.
Burgess, F. ( - ) Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Bird Notes Shot the 1859 Oxfordshire Little Bustard.
Biography Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.
Burgess ( - ) Kirkmichael, Dumfriesshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected pre1791 Dumfriesshire Pine Grosbeak.
Burkitt, Robert J. (1807 - 03/07/1893) Dublin, Co. Dublin.
Bird Notes Owned the 1830 At sea Northern Hawk Owl.
Obituary Irish Naturalist 2: 224.
Burl ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the rejected 1825 Gloucestershire Scissor-tailed Goatsucker.
Burn, Forbes ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1878 Borders White's Thrush.
Burney ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1818 Northumberland Red-breasted Goose.
Biography Gunsmith.
Burnham ( - ) Greater London.
Bird Notes Shot the 1870 London Great Bustard.
Biography Labourer.
Burnham, C. E. A. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1948 Yorkshire White-tailed Eagle.
Burnham, R. T. ( - ) Rimswell, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Owned the 1881 Yorkshire White's Thrush.
Burns, P. S. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the two 1945 Cambridgeshire Black-winged Stilts. Saw and recorded the 1946 Cornwall Rose-coloured Starling.
Burroughes, J. ( - ) Lingwood, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1849 Norfolk Little Bittern.
Burroughs, H. N. ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1857 Norfolk Tengmalm's Owl.
Burrowes, R. B. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1940 Kent Little Bustard.
Burrows, James ( - ) Tarnock, Badgworth, Somerset.
Bird Notes Owned the escaped 1875 Somerset Purple Gallinule.
Burt, E. (1809 - 30/04/1888) 5, Higher Terrace, Torquay, Devon.
Bird Notes Preserved and recorded the 1845 Devon Rose-coloured Starling. Preserved and recorded the 1851 Devon Plymouth Rose-coloured Starling. Recorded the 1853 Devon Ivory Gull.
Biography Curator and Librarian at Torquay Museum from 1854. Taxidermist.
Burt, E. ( - )
Bird Notes Shot the 1846 Suffolk Two-barred Crossbill which Bree owned.
Burton Durham, E. ( - ) Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1888 Essex Gyr Falcons.
Burton, F. M. ( - ) Uppingham, Rutland; Highfield, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1854 Lincolnshire Purple Heron. Recorded and saw the rejected 1900 Lincolnshire Nutcracker. Recorded the escaped 1902 Lincolnshire Greater Flamingo.
Burton, R. E. ( - ) , Northamptonshire.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1947 Northamptonshire Ferruginous Duck.
Biography County Bird Recorder.
Burton, Walter ( - ) Wardour Street, Soho, London.
Bird Notes Preserved the rejected 1863 Kent Spotted Sandpiper. Sent the 1882 Hertfordshire Rustic Bunting to Lord Lilford. Shot and preserved the 1887 Sussex Broad-billed Sandpiper. Preserved the 1890 Scilly Black Stork.
Burton, W. D. ( - ) Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1849 Norfolk Caspian Tern.
Bury, Rev. Charles A. ( - 1873) Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.
Bird Notes Recorded the four rejected 1842 Wight Dowitcher sp. Recorded the two rejected 1844 Wight Two-barred Crossbills.
Bute ( - ) Rothesay, Bute, Clyde Islands.
Bird Notes Owned the 1907 Ayrshire Glossy Ibis.
Butler, Dr. Arthur Gardiner (27/06/1844 - 28/05/1925) Penge; Chelsea, Surrey; Greater London.
Bird Notes Stated the 1891 Essex Elmstead Spotted Eagle had passed to Hon. W. Rothschild, but he denied it. Stated that Mr. Thorburn made a drawing of the 1891 Essex Leigh-on-Sea Spotted Eagle.
Biography Senior Assistant-Keeper in the Department of Zoology at the Natural History Museum.
Obituary Ibis 1925: 722.
Butler, Arthur Lennox (22/02/1873 - 29/12/1939) Horsham, Sussex.
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1916 Norfolk Night Heron.
Biography Son of Edward Arthur Butler.
Obituary Ibis 1940: 348.
Butler, Edward Arthur (04/07/1843 - 16/04/1916) Herringfleet Hall, Lowestoft and Brettenham Park, Ipswich, Suffolk; Winsford Hall, Stokesby, Great Yarmouth; Norfolk.
Bird Notes Recorded and examined the 1889 Suffolk Tengmalm's Owl. Recorded the two 1890 Norfolk Caspian Plovers. Recorded and examined the three 1890 Norfolk Pectoral Sandpipers. Recorded the 1893 Suffolk Common Crane. Recorded the 1897 Cambridgeshire Black-browed Albatross. Recorded and examined the 1897 Norfolk Little Bustard.
Biography Born at Coton House, Churchover, Warwickshire. Studied at Eton. Joined the army at the age of twenty-one, serving in Gibraltar, India and as a Major in active service in southern Africa in 1881, he took part in the Boer War. Father of Arthur Lennox, Charles Edward and Harry Francis Butler. His collections were acquired by the Natural History Museum.
Obituary Ibis 1916: 644-645.
Butler, G. G. ( - )
Bird Notes Informed Bolam of the 1902 Northumberland Roller.
Butler, R. W. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw the 1946 Cambridgeshire Moustached Warblers.
Butler ( - ) Bury, Suffolk ?.
Bird Notes Owned the pre 1890 Wight Crested Tit.
Butler. ( - ) Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
Bird Notes Obtained the two rejected c.1838 Wight Two-barred Crossbills.
Butterfield, Edwin Port Philip (31/07/1847 - 01/02/1931) Wilsden, Yorkshire.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1876 Yorkshire Eagle Owl. Recorded the 1887 Yorkshire Crested Tit.
Biography Bank Manager.
Obituary Naturalist 1931: 150-151.
Butterfield, W. C. J. Ruskin (1872 - 24/03/1935) St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.
Bird Notes Recorded the rejected 1830-40 Suffolk Swallow-tailed Kite. Recorded and owned the c.1886 Sussex Wallcreeper. Recorded the HR 1894 Sussex Black-headed Bunting. Recorded the rejected HR 1895 Sussex Red-throated Pipit. Recorded the 1898 Lancashire Barred Warbler. Recorded the HR 1900 Sussex Melodious Warbler. Recorded and examined the HR 1901 Sussex Broad-billed Sandpiper. Recorded and examined the HR 1903 Sussex Black-winged Pratincole. Examined the 1903 Sussex Orphean Warbler. Recorded the rejected HR 1904 Sussex Bulwer's Petrel. Examined the HR 1908 Sussex Bulwer's Petrel. Examined the HR 1909 Sussex Black-headed Bunting. Examined two of the HR 1910 Sussex Sociable Lapwings. Examined the HR 1910 Sussex Marsh Sandpiper. Examined one of the HR 1910 Sussex Ivory Gulls. Examined the two HR 1910 Sussex Meadow Buntings. Examined thetwo HR 1911 Sussex Cream-coloured Coursers. Examined the HR 1911 Sussex Steppe Grey Shrike. Examined the HR 1912 Sussex Isabelline Wheatear. Examined the HR 1912 Sussex Lesser Grey Shrike. Examined the three HR 1915 Sussex Sociable Lapwings. Examined two of the three HR 1913 Sussex Gull-billed Terns. Examined the two HR 1915 Kent Sooty Terns. Examined the HR 1916 Sussex White-rumped Sandpiper. Examined the HR 1916 Sussex Solitary Sandpiper. Examined the HR 1916 Sussex Caspian Tern. Examined the two HR 1916 Sussex Calandra Larks. Examined three of the four HR 1916 Sussex White-winged Larks. Examined the HR 1916 Sussex White's Thrush. Examined the HR 1916 Sussex Dusky Warbler. Examined the two HR 1916 Sussex Collared Flycatchers. Examined the three HR 1916 Sussex White-winged Snowfinches. Examined the HR 1918 Sussex Rufous Bush Robin.
Biography Curator of the Corporation Museum, Hastings. Heavily involved in the "Hastings Rarities" fraud. Came to Hastings from Bradford, Yorkshire in 1894. The John’s Place mansion was purchased in 1929 to form the museum.
Butters, F. C. ( - ) Devon.
Bird Notes Recorded the 1933 Devon Eagle Owl. Saw and recorded the 1945 Devon Rose-coloured Starling. Saw the 1947 Devon Black-eared Wheatear.
Buttress, Leonard ( - ) Grove Rectory, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Bird Notes He recorded and his brother bought the c.1891 Nottinghamshire Baillon's Crake.
Buxton, Charles ( - ) Norfolk.
Bird Notes Informed Yarrell about the rejected 1839 Norfolk Wilson's Storm-petrel.
Buxton, E. John M. ( - )
Bird Notes Saw and recorded the 1946 Pembrokeshire Serin.
Buxton, Gurney ( - )
Bird Notes Owned the 1880 Norfolk Night Heron.
Buxton, T. Fowell ( - ) Warlies, Waltham Abbey, Essex.
Bird Notes Owned the escaped 1869 Norfolk Eagle Owl. Owned the 1871 Norfolk Snowy Owl.
Biography J.P.
Buxton ( - ) Fritton Hall, Norfolk.
Bird Notes Owned the 1882 Norfolk White-tailed Eagle.
Byne, Henry ( - ) Miligan Hall, Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Somerset.
Bird Notes Owned the rejected 1854-5 Devon Pine Grosbeak. Owned and recorded the 1866 Somerset Serin. Owned the rejected 1869 Devon Calandra Lark. Recorded and owned the 1871 Avon White's Thrush. Owned an undated rejected Devon Woodchat Shrike.
Biography Died before 1890.
Byne, R. M. ( - ) Exmouth, Devon.
Bird Notes Saw and reported the 1932 Devon Rose-coloured Starling.Co.