Norman Boyd Kinnear

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Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear (born August 11, 1882 in Edinburgh , † August 11, 1957 in London ) was a Scottish zoologist and ornithologist .

Life

Kinnear was the youngest son of wealthy Edinburgh architect Charles George Hood Kinnear and his wife Jessie. He was widely related to the Scottish ornithologist William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth .

Kinnear studied in Scotland and then worked at a country estate in Lanarkshire before starting to work at the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh from 1905 to 1907, where the Scottish ornithologist William Eagle Clarke was his colleague. In 1907 he accompanied Eagle on a research trip to the Fair Isle , where he collected bird hides for museums.

On the recommendation of William Eagle Clarke, Kinnear was appointed curator at the Natural History Museum in Bombay, a position he held from November 1, 1907 to November 1919.

In 1913 he married Gwendolen Beatrice Millard, daughter of the Scottish doctor William Wright Millard, who was related to one of his colleagues at the Natural History Museum. Among other things, Kinnear was involved in studies of the Indian mammal fauna, which began in 1911. When the First World War broke out, he made several unsuccessful attempts to join the Indian army. He served briefly with the Bombay Volunteer Rifles and then from 1915 to 1919 served as an officer of military parts charged with defending the port. During this time he worked on a book about the fauna of Mesopotamia.

In 1920 he returned to Great Britain and worked at the Natural History Museum in London. In 1947 he was appointed director of the museum. He retired on April 30, 1950 and was knighted that June.

Kinnear died in London on his 75th birthday.

Terms and Dedication Names

The Kinnear Mountains of Antarctica are named after Kinnear because, in his role as director of the museum, he made an expedition there possible. Jean Théodore Delacour and Pierre Charles Edmond Jabouille named 1930 the Pale-throated Zaunkönigstimalie ( Spelaeornis kinneari ) in honor of Kinnear.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Sidney Dillon Ripley: Obituary Sir Norman (Boyd) Kinnear . In: The Auk . tape 75 , no. 1 , 1958, p. 119 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 56 kB ]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Barclay-Smith, Phyllis: Kinnear, Sir Norman Boyd (1882–1957) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004, doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 34332 .
  3. ^ Prater, SH: Obituary. Norman Boyd Kinnear 1882-1957 . In: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . 54, No. 4, 1957, pp. 928-930.
  4. ^ Jean Théodore Delacour & Pierre Jabouille: Description de trente oiseaux de l'Indochine française In: L'Oiseau et la Revue Francaise d'Ornithologie. Vol 11, 1930, p. 403
  5. ↑ James. A. Jobling: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology: kinneari In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, DA & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2017). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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SURNAME Kinnear, Norman Boyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1957
Place of death London