Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors (born December 12, 1785 in Old Leighlin , Kingdom of Ireland , † October 26, 1840 in London ) was an Irish zoologist , ornithologist and politician .
Live and act
He studied at Trinity College , Oxford . During the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula (Peninsular War), he fought on the Irish side from 1809 to 1811 and after being wounded at Barrosa on March 5, he finally returned to Oxford in the same year 1811 to do his doctorate there in 1817.
Together with Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles , George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784-1849), Sir Humphry Davy and Joseph Sabine (1770-1837) he founded the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in 1826 and was its first secretary until 1833 . Also in 1826 he became a member of the Royal Society in London and later the Linnean Society of London . In 1834 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In his life he wrote over 40 works - most of them were ornithological.
In 1828 he took over the property and property of his deceased father. From 1832 until his death in 1840, he represented various constituencies in County Carlow (Contae Cheatharlach) in the British House of Commons as an elected MP .
Works
- An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetic license. Mackinlay & Bensley , London 1810.
- A statement of persecutions on the part of certain Tory landlords in the County of Carlow. Ridgways, London 1836.
literature
- John Doyle (1797–1868): A design - partly taken from the antique of the destruction of the Niobe family. McLean, London 1841.
- Bernard Barham Woodward : Vigors, Nicholas Aylward . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 58: Ubaldini - Wakefield. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1899, pp 310 - 311 (English).
- Adrian Desmond: Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1785 / 6-1840), zoological administrator and quinarian. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2006 (not viewed).
- Vigors, Nicholas Aylward . In: Alfred Webb: A Compendium of Irish Biography , M. & H. Gill Son, Dublin 1878, p. 541 (English)
Web links
- Entry for Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1785-1840) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- Mr. Nicholas Vigors at Hansard (English)
- Family information in rootsweb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vigors, Nicholas Aylward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish zoologist, ornithologist and politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Old Leighlin , County Carlow |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1840 |
| Place of death | London |