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Last Name Henry

Given Name George Morrison Reid

alt. Names G. M. R. H. ; Reid-Henry ;

Marriage Olive Hobday (1xxx-1969) in 1917

Children painter Bruce Charles Reid Henry (1918-) ; painter David Morrison Reid Henry (1919-1977) ;

Year born 1891 in Kandapola, Sri Lanka

Year died 1983

Place of death England

Father's occupation tea plantation manager Charles Reid Henry

Relatives 10 siblings

Education taught art by his sisters ; Leyton Art School ; zoology by his boss Joseph Pearson at Colombo Museum

Country of Activity Sri Lanka

Worked for zoologist and marine biologist Joseph Pearson ; Walter Ernest Wait: Coloured plates Birds Ceylon (1927-35) ; G. M. R. H.: Guide birds Ceylon (1955) ; Salim A. Ali: Indian Hill Birds (1949) ;

Patronage was draughtsman & laboratory assistant at Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers ; artist then asst. systematic entomology at Colombo Museum 1911-46 ;

Collaborators David M. R. Henry (son) ;

Techniques entomological and ornithological drawing and painting ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources British Museum Natural History ;

Published sources AKL 72 2012: 53 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1890 & 2000 ? ;

other Further Places of Activity: Ceylon and England (from 1946).

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