Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Walden, Arthur Hay
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Viscount Walden; 9th Marquess of Tweeddale
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1824-1878
History
Colonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish solider and ornithologist. He was President of the Zoological Society of London from 1868 . He had a private collection of birds, insects, reptiles and mammals, and employed Carl Bock to travel to Maritime Southeast Asia and collect specimens. Tweeddale described about 40 species collected by Bock for the first time and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
ZSL President
Note
1868-1878