William Ogilby

William Ogilby (1805 – 1 September 1873) was a zoologist born in Ireland. In the 1830s, he was a leader in classifying and naming animal species. He worked as the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839[1][note 1] to 1847.[2] During the Great Famine, he moved back to Ireland. Later, he built a large but plain-looking building called Altinaghree Castle near Donemana, County Tyrone. In 1846, a mountain in Queensland was named Mount Ogilby in his honor.

Notes

  1. ↑ He officiated as Secretary for the first time on 4 July 1839: John Bull, 8 July 1839.

References

  1. ↑ Morning Chronicle, 5 July 1839.
  2. ↑ Sofia Akerberg, Knowledge and Pleasure at Regent's Park: the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London during the Nineteenth Century, Department of Historical Studies, Umea University, Sweden, 2001, p. 125.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.