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Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
Personne · 1826-1880

Better known as Frank Buckland, he was an English surgeon, zoologist, author and natural historian. He was born in a noted family of naturalists. Frank was the first son of Canon William Buckland, a geologist and palaeontologist, and Mary Morland, a fossil collector.

He studied surgery under Caesar Hawkins at St George's Hospital. During this time he became acquainted with Abraham Dee Bartlett, Superintendent of London Zoo, who would send him dead animals at the zoo and he continued to keep many animals. Buckland was made a MRCS in 1851. He was appointed House Surgeon at St George's in 1852. He left St George's in 1853 and in August 1854 he joined the 2nd Life Guards as an assistant surgeon. This appointment left him time for his growing interest in natural history. Buckland gradually gave up medicine and surgery to devote himself to natural history and he was a pioneer of zoöphagy. He was one of the key members and founded of the acclimatisation society in Britain, an organisation that supported the introduction of new plants and animals as food sources which was influenced by his interest in eating and tasting a range of exotic animal meats.
Gladstone, Hugh Steuart
Personne

Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone of Capenoch was a Scottish ornithologist and landowner. In 1920 he became Chairman of the Wild Birds Advisory (Scotland) Committee, serving this role until death. In 1933, he was one of eleven people involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the British Trust for Ornithology
Belle Vue Zoo
Collectivité · 1836-1977

Belle Vue Zoo was a zoo in Manchester between 1836-1977. It was opened by John Jennison, who was a part time gardener and kept a small aviary at home – which formed the beginnings of the Zoo – the first privately financed in England
Perkins, Robert Cyril Layton
Personne · 1866-1955

Robert Cyril Layton was educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1877-1885) and Jesus College, Oxford (1885-1889). He briefly worked as a private tutor at Dartmouth. He was selected by the Sandwich Islands Committee (set up by the British Association and the Royal Society) to go as collector to the Hawaiian Islands in 1891. He spent the greater part of the next ten years in the Hawaiian Island collection all groups of terrestrial animals. He was on the Board of Agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii, 1902-1904, and director of the new division of entomology at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association's experimental station in 1904. He retired to England in 1912. He was awarded an Oxford DSc in 1906 and gold medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1912. He was elected FRS in 1920
Staude, Dr
Personne · fl early 19th century
Thompson, E
Personne · fl 1936