manager of the bank in Thirsk, that had been set up by his grandfather, 1840/41 in Leeds, since 1846 commission merchant in Baltic timber business
schools in Bromley, England, Ahrensburg in 1852, to learn German, in 1854 in Gefle and Uppsala to study Swedish;
United Kingdom
A history of the birds of Europe (8 vols. in 84 parts, London 1871-82 & suppl. 1895/96) ; The Eggs of the Birds of Europe (1905-10); Monographs on bee-eaters (1884–6) and rollers (1893) ;
British Ornithologists' Union (member 1865, secr. 1882-85) ; Linnean and Zoological societies of London; American Ornithological Union (hon fell.)
-> Richard Bowdler Sharpe ;
zoological and ornithological drawing ; hand-colouring ;
H. A. McGhie: Nineteenth-century ornithology (Leadenhall Market and Fraud. British Birds 105 (2012): 678-82 ;
Active as English businessman & ornithologist, author of over 100 scientific papers on birds, mostly concerned with geographical distribution, descriptions of new species & illustrating the eggs of many species for the first time.
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