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Elliot, Daniel Giraud
Elliot, Daniel Giraud
Person · 1835-1915

Daniel Giraud Elliot was an American zoologist. He used his wealth to publish a series of colour-plate books on birds and animals. Elliot wrote the text himself and commissioned artists such as Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit, both of whom had worked for John Gould, to provide the illustrations. The books included A Monograph of the Phasianidae (Family of the Pheasants) (1870–72), A Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise (1873),[3] A Monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats (1878) and Review of the Primates (1913). In 1899 he was invited to join the Harriman Alaska Expedition to study and document wildlife along the Alaskan coast. Elliot was one of the founders of the American Museum on Natural History in New York City, of the American Ornithologists' Union and of the Société zoologique de France. He was also curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago
Ellington, Dr C P
Person · fl 1991

Employed in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge
Ellerman, Sir John Reeves
Person · 1909-1973

Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 2nd Baronet, was an English shipowner, natural historian and philanthropist. Ellerman's main interest was the study of rodents. He wrote The Families and Genera of Living Rodents
Ellam, P
Person · fl 1948

Helper in the Reptile House at ZSL London Zoo
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain
Person · 1926-2022

Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death on 8 September 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states in the course of her reign, and served as monarch of 15 of them at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days is the longest of any British monarch and the longest recorded of any female head of state.

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She was educated privately at home and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and their marriage laster 73 years until his death in April 2021. They had four children: Charles III; Anne, Princes Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
Elford, C
Person · fl 1945