19 British ornithologist stubs

John Morton Boyd CBE FRSE was a British zoologist, writer and conservationist. He was a pioneer of nature conservation in Scotland.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Arthur Butler was an English ornithologist and British Army officer. He is commemorated in the scientific specific name for the Omani owl, Strix butleri.

George Henry Caton Haigh FZS, MBOU, DL, was a world authority on Himalayan flowering trees and exotic plants. He was also a famous ornithologist and his manuscript collection is lodged in The Natural History Museum.

Dr William Eagle Clarke FLS FRSE PBOU I.S.O LL.D. was a British ornithologist.

John Cordeaux, MBOU was one of the foremost English amateur naturalist and ornithologist of his day, known for his work with the British Association on bird migration.

Edward Doubleday was an English entomologist primarily interested in Lepidoptera. He is best known for The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and Transformations, and a Catalogue of the Species of Each Genus, co-written with John O. Westwood, and illustrated by William Chapman Hewitson; and List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum.

Henry Doubleday was an English entomologist and ornithologist.

Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.

Arthur Humble Evans FRSE was a British ornithologist.

Thomas Campbell Eyton JP, DL was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin though he opposed his theories.

Christopher Alexander Roger Helm was a Scottish book publisher, notably of ornithology related titles, including the Helm Identification Guides.

Percy Roycroft Lowe was an English surgeon and ornithologist.

Sir Edward Newton was a British colonial administrator and ornithologist.

Eugene William Oates was an English naturalist and a civil engineer who worked on road projects in Burma.

Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson FRSE PZS CB LLD was a Scottish medical researcher, mainly remembered as an amateur ornithologist and ornithological author and acknowledged expert on bird migration.

Bernard William Tucker was an English ornithologist. He was lecturer in zoology at Oxford University, a long-time editor of British Birds and one of the authors of The Handbook of British Birds. He was the first Secretary of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and founder of the Oxford Ornithological Society in 1921.

Marmaduke Tunstall was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica (1771), probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature.

Colonel Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay FLS, FZS was an army officer and naturalist. His father was Robert Balfour Wardlaw-Ramsay while his mother Louisa was the third daughter of George, eighth Marquess of Tweeddale. He studied at Cheam and Harrow before joining the Hampshire Regiment in January 1871 to be stationed in India, Afghanistan and Burma. His interest in birds began as a young boy and in 1872 he was elected a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and was later (1913-1918) to become its president. He was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society. During his various army postings he took a great interest in the local ornithology. He was a nephew of Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale and inherited a large collection of over 20,000 bird skins that was later presented to the British Museum. He also edited The Ornithological works of Arthur 9th Marquis of Tweeddale (1881) and towards the end of his life was writing a Guide to the birds of Europe and North Africa (1923) which was published posthumously.

Kenneth Williamson FRSE MBOU was a British ornithologist who had a strong association with Scotland and with bird migration.