Английская Википедия:George Muirhead (naturalist)
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Dr George Muirhead FRSE LLD (1845-1928) was a 20th-century Scottish naturalist and artist.
Life
He was born in Saltoun in East Lothian in 1845, the son of a farmer.
From around 1865 he was a Factor on a Berwickshire estate, overseeing managerial issues. He moved to be Factor of Haddo House around 1880, working under the Marquess of Aberdeen.[1] From 1897 to 1923 he was Commissioner to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon at Fochabers.
He died at Fochabers in 1928.[2]
Academic honours
In 1888 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were David Milne Home, Ramsay Heatley Traquair, J. A. Harvey Brown, and Alexander Buchan.[3] Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1925.
Publications
- Birds of Berwickshire vol.1 (1889)[4]
- Birds of Berwickshire vol.2 (1895)
Family
He married twice: firstly to Agnes Grieve Clay of Kerchesters, a gifted artist of birds. They had three sons.
Secondly, in 1907, he married the Hon Katherine Forbes-Sempill, daughter of William Forbes-Sempill, 17th Lord Sempill.
References
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