Robin Chancellor

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Robin Chancellor (actually Robert Duff Chancellor; born October 24, 1921 in London , † October 27, 2010 in Chiang Mai , Thailand ) was a British ornithologist and conservationist. He was particularly interested in birds of prey.

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Chancellor was the youngest son of Lt. Col. Sir John Chancellor and his wife Mary Elisabeth Howard (1881–1971); his older brother was the journalist Christopher Chancellor (1904-1989). His father was the first governor of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia from 1923 to 1928 and the High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and Transjordan from 1928 to 1931 . Robin Chancellor spent part of his youth here.

He studied at Eton College and Trinity College , Cambridge. From 1974 to 1978 Chancellor was assistant honorary secretary of the International Council for Bird Preservation (now BirdLife International ) and then he took over from Phyllis Barclay-Smith (1902-1980) the position of honorary secretary, which he held until 1987. From 1982 until shortly before his death, Chancellor was secretary and treasurer of the World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls (WWGBP).

In this function he was editor and co-editor of six extensive works that were published for the various world conferences of the WWGBP. The individual titles are Raptors in the Modern World , 1989 (3rd world conference in Eilat , Israel), Raptor Conservation Today , 1994 (4th world conference in Berlin), Eagle Studies , 1996 (various eagle conferences), Holarctic Birds of Prey , 1998 (International Conference in Badajoz , Spain), Raptors at Risk , 2000 (5th World Conference in Midrand , South Africa) and Raptors Worldwide , 2004 (6th World Conference in Budapest, Hungary). Thanks to his competent knowledge of German and French, he was able to translate non-English material into English. From 1996 to 2001 Chancellor was on the editorial board of Buteo ( ISSN  1210-3535 ), a journal of Czech and Slovak working groups on the protection and research of birds of prey and owls.

From 2007 to 2010 he was the editor-in-chief of the Slovak Raptor Journal ( ISSN  1338-7227 ), which is published by raptor conservationists from Slovakia. Chancellor had a special relationship with Hungary, which he visited frequently. In 1982 he became a member of the Hungarian Ornithology and Nature Conservation Society (Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület, MME) and he supported a protection program for the meadow otter . In 1986 he took part in a WWGBP expedition to research the Java hooded eagle ( Spizaetus bartelsi ).

Chancellor spent a lot of time in Africa with ornithologist Leslie H. Brown . He also undertook expeditions to Latvia, Turkey, Zambia, South Africa, Namibia and Indonesia. He lived in Thailand for the last years of his life, where he died on October 27, 2010. His ashes were brought back to Britain and ended up in Stoke Bruerne Cemetery, South Northamptonshire .

Works (selection)

  • World Conference on Birds of Prey, Vienna, 1. – 3. October 1975 . Report of Proceedings, 1977
  • Adult Learners on Campus , 1977
  • Raptors in the Modern World , 1989
  • Raptor Conservation Today , 1994
  • Eagle Studies , 1996
  • Holarctic Birds of Prey , 1998
  • Raptors at Risk , 2000
  • Raptors Worldwide , 2004

literature

  • Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg and Ian Newton : Obituary Robin Chancellor 1921-2010 In: Slovak Raptor Journal 2010, No. 4: pp. 132-133 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Chancellor, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chancellor, Robert Duff; Chancellor RD; Chancellor, Robin D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2010
Place of death Chiang Mai , Thailand