William Robert Ogilvie-Grant

William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (born March 25, 1863 in Easter Elchies, Morayshire , Scotland , † July 26, 1924 in Farley Cottage, near Reading , England ) was a Scottish ornithologist .

Grant, who had been using the name Ogilvie-Grant since around 1901/02 , joined the British Museum at the age of 19. In 1890 he married Maud Louisa Pechell, eldest daughter of Vice Admiral Mark Pechell. In the First World War Ogilvie-Grant was severely wounded. He wrote many scientific works and went on research trips, u. a. 1898 with Henry Ogg Forbes to Socotra and Abd al-Kuri . Ogilvie-Grant co-founded the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves .

Ogilvie-Grant was a bird curator at the British Museum from 1909 to 1918 .

Works

• On a new species of Guinea fowl . In: The Ibis (=  6 ). tape 6 , no. 50 , 1894, pp. 535-538 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Mr. WR Ogilvie-Grant exhibited specimens of two apparently undescribed birds from the Owen Stanley Museum in SE New Guinea . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 5 , no. 200 , 1895, pp. XV ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• The Expedition to Socotra. IV Descriptions of three new species of butterflies - Liverpool: Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 1899
• Arthropoda. Insecta: Lepidoptera - I. Rhopalocera . In: HO Forbes: Natural history of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri: Being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898-9, by Mr. WR Ogilvie-Grant, of the British Museum, and Dr. HO Forbes, of the Liverpool Museums, together with information from other available sources. Forming a monogragh of the islands - Liverpool: Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, 1903
• Exhibition and description of a new subspecies of Grosbeak, Rhynchostruthus percivali yemenensis , from the mountains of S. Yemen - Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 1913
• Report of a new race of Palm Dove - Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, 1914
• WR Ogilvie-Grant sent descriptions of three new subspecies of Parrots . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 35 , no. 200 , 1915, pp. 11-13 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).