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Last Name Horsbrugh
Given Name Boyd Robert
alt. Names B. R. H. ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1871 in Poona, India
Year died 1916
Place of death in England, UK
Father's occupation Charles Bell Horsbrugh, a Captain and Adjutant of the 2nd Central India Horse, later the Central India Horse.
Relatives
Education at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst
Country of Activity South Africa
Worked for The game-birds & water-fowl of South Africa (1912, reprint c. 1986) ;
Patronage Avicultural Society of Great Britain ;
Collaborators ornithologist ->Claude Gibney Finch-Davies on: Game-Birds & Water Fowl of South Africa ;
Techniques zoological and ornithological drawing ; hand-colouring ;
Sample(s) www.oiseaux.net/photos/boyd.robert.horsbrugh/; https://archive.org/details/gamebirdswaterfo00hors ;
Archival sources
Published sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Robert_Horsbrugh ;
other Further Places of Activity: as officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, B. R. H. served in Ceylon, 1893-94, Ireland 1895-97, Sierra Leone 1898–99, and South Africa 1900-02.
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