William Edward de Winton

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William Edward de Winton (born September 6, 1856 or 1857 (A) in Carmarthenshire , Wales , † August 30, 1922 ) was a British zoologist and animal collector. His research focus was mammalogy , besides he dealt with the avifauna .

Life

De Winton was the second son of Captain Robert Henry de Winton. He began his professional career as a businessman in London before devoting himself to natural history . In 1893 he became a member of the British Ornithologists 'Union and soon afterwards in the British Ornithologists' Club founded in 1892 . For the early editions of the Bulletin of the Ornithologists' Club, he published several notes and short essays. In 1899, de Winton was elected honorary treasurer and second secretary of the British Ornithologists' Club to succeed Howard Saunders . He held this office until 1904.

After John Samuel Budgett (1872-1904) gave up his post at the London Zoo , de Winton took over the temporary management of the zoological garden in Regent's Park in 1903 . In 1904 he married Sibyl Laura Edwardes, the second daughter of William Edwardes, 4th Baron of Kensington. From this marriage three daughters and two sons were born.

De Winton described several species of mammals, including the northern pudu , the Corsican hare , the Somali gerbil , Bocage's gray gerbil , the De Winton shrew , the Chinese water shrew , the Kintampo redshank squirrel, and the reticulated giraffe . In 1902 he completed the work Zoology of Egypt - Mammalia by the zoologist John Anderson, who died in 1900 .

Dedication names

In 1901, Oldfield described Thomas De Winton's long-eared bat ( Laephotis wintoni ) and in 1907, De Winton's golden mole ( Cryptochloris wintoni ) was named by Robert Broom after de Winton. Macronyx ameliae wintoni , a subspecies of the ruby- throated pipit from Kenya and Tanzania, whose dedication was erroneously attributed to William Edward de Winton, named Richard Bowdler Sharpe after Francis Walter de Winton (1835-1901), one of the directors of the Imperial British East Africa Company .

Remarks

(A)Although many sources, including the obituary in Ibis magazine from 1923 or the National Archives in Kew, give 1856 as the year of birth, his gravestone indicates September 6, 1857 as his birthday.

literature

  • William Lutley Sclater : Obituary William Edward De Winton . In: Ibis, 11th Series, 5, 1923: p. 162-163
  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , p. 109
  • John Graham Kerr : The Work of John Samuel Budgett: Being a Collection of his Zoological Papers, Together with a Biographical Sketch , 1907 (2014 new edition), ISBN 978-1107424029 . P. 44

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
  2. ^ Richard Bowdler Sharpe: On the Birds collected by Mr. FJ Jackson, FZS, during his recent Expedition to Uganda through the Territory of the Imperial British East-African Company. In: Ibis, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 1892, pp. 299-322
  3. ^ National Archives, Kew
  4. ↑ Find a Grave: William Edward de Winton , accessed September 18, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Winton, William Edward de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and animal collector
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1856 or 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Carmarthenshire , Wales
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1922