Richard Bowdler Sharpe
1847
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1909
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Loughborough Grammar School, The King's (The Cathedral) School
occupation: ornithologist, zoologist, librarian
award received: Honorary degree, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Honorary Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
position held: organizational founder
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume catalogue of the specimens in the collection of the museum. He described many new species of bird and also has had species named in his honour by other ornithologists including Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) and Sharpe's starling (Poeoptera sharpii). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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