William Ogilby

William Ogilby ( 1808 or 1804 - September 1, 1873 in Altinaghree Castle , County Tyrone , Northern Ireland ) was an Irish barrister and naturalist .

Life

After graduating from Trinity College in Dublin, Ogilby practiced as a barrister in London from 1832 to 1846. In 1839 he became honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London . In 1846 he resigned and became land administrator in County Tyrone , Northern Ireland . During the Great Famine in Ireland , he built Altinaghree Castle, which was completed in the 1860s.

In his magazine, Magazine of Natural History , he described numerous mammalian taxa that were sent to him from Europe as well as from the African, Asian and Australian colonies . On a trip through Germany Ogilby collected many animal species that were described by his friend Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893) in the Annals of Natural History .

In 1851, Ogilby Adelaide married Charlotte Douglas. The couple had seven children. His son James Douglas Ogilby (1853-1925) later became a well-known ichthyologist in Australia.

Dedication names

In 1838 George Robert Waterhouse named the ogilby duiker ( Cephalophus ogilbyi ) and in 1841 the western brush-tailed rat kangaroo ( Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi ) in honor of William Ogilby. The subspecies Paguma larvata ogilbyi of the larvae roller was described in 1846 by Louis Fraser (1819-1884).

literature

Gordon R. McOuat: Species, Rules and Meaning: The Politics of Language and the Ends of Definitions in 19th Century Natural History. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part A, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1996, ISSN 0039-3681 , pp. 473-519, doi: 10.1016 / 0039-3681 (95) 00060-7 .
Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , pp. 296-297.

Individual evidence

↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , pp. 296-297.

personal data
SURNAME	Ogilby, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish barrister and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1804 or 1808
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1873
Place of death	Altinaghree Castle , County Tyrone , Northern Ireland

[1] Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , pp. 296-297.