The English Love Affair with Nature
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Richard Adams (b. 1920), novelist, author of Watership Down
(William M.) ‘Bill’ Adams (b. 1955), geographer and conservationist
George Adamson (1906-1989), conservationist
Joy Adamson (1910-1980), conservationist (wife of George)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Enlightenment writer
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss zoologist
W(illiam) T(ownsend) Aiton (1766-1849), botanist
Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861), husband of Queen Victoria
Eleazar Albin (c. 1670-c. 1742), natural history illustrator
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), army commander
Samuel Alexander (1859-1938), philosopher
David Elliston Allen (b. 1932), social historian
Prospero Alpino (1553-1617), Italian herbalist
Anaximander (c. 610-c. 546 BC), Ionian Greek philosopher
Anaximenes (585 BC-528 BC), Ionian Greek philosopher
Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector, finder of Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs
Peter Apian = Petrus Apianus = Peter Bienewitz (1495-1552), German writer on astronomy
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Greek naturalist and philosopher
Sir David Attenborough (b. 1926), natural history presenter
Clement Attlee (1883-1967), politician
Jane Austen (1775-1817), novelist
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), philosopher and statesman
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of Scout movement
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), politician
Philip Ball (b. 1962), science writer
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), botanist
Geoffrey Barkas (1896-1979), film director, camouflage officer
Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), illustrator, author of flower fairy books
Daines Barrington (1727/8-1800), lawyer
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892), naturalist
Franz Bauer (1758-1840), Austrian botanical artist, illustrator at Kew
Gaspard/Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624), Swiss botanist
Jean Bauhin (1511-1582), French physician
Johann/Jean Bauhin (1541-1613), Swiss botanist
William Bayliss (1860-1924), physiologist
Ralph Beilby (1744-1817), engraver
S. Vere Benson (1909-1987), natural history writer
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), collector
Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher of the élan vital
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), wood engraver, naturalist
William Bligh (1754-1817), captain of HMS Bounty
Edward Blyth (1810-1873), zoologist, curator of Asiatic Society museum, Calcutta
Ronald Blythe (b. 1922), rural writer
Nicolas Boileau(-Despréaux) (1636-1711), French man of letters
Henry Bolckow (1806-1878), industrialist and politician
John Boorman (b. 1933), film director
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753), patron of the arts, neo-Palladian architect
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), scientist
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Danish astronomer
Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738), garden designer
George Bristow (1863-1947), taxidermist and apparently fraudulent ornithologist
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), novelist
Richard Brookes (fl. 1750), physician, natural historian
Capability Brown (1716-1783), landscape architect
Revd. William Buckland (1784-1856), theologian, geologist, palaeontologist [OW]
Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846), engineer, inventor of cylinder lawnmower
Comte de Buffon = Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707-1788), zoologist
Decimus Burton (1800-1881), garden designer and architect
Charles Byrne = Charles O’Brien (c. 1761-1783), Irish giant
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), Romantic poet
Eileen Caddy (1917-2006), new age spiritual teacher, co-founder of Findhorn Foundation
Peter Caddy (1917-1994), hotelier, co-founder of Findhorn Foundation
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius/Camerer (1665-1721), German botanist
Sir Edward Hamer Carbutt (1838-1905), engineer and politician
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), man of letters
Rachel Carson (1907-1964), American biologist and environmentalist
William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), statesman
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), prime minister
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400), poet
Sir Winston (Leonard) S(pencer-) Churchill (1874-1965), prime minister
John Clare (1793-1864), rural poet
Dudley Clarke (1899-1974), military deception strategist
Claude (Lorrain) (c. 1600-1682), French historical and mythological landscape painter
Carolus Clusius = Charles de l’Écluse (1526-1609), Dutch herbalist
Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), anti-vivisectionist
William Cobbett (1763-1835), rural campaigner, journalist
S(amuel) T(aylor) Coleridge (1772-1834), romantic poet
Stephen Coleridge (1854-1936), barrister
R(obin) G(eorge) Collingwood (1889-1943), historian, philosopher
John Stewart Collis (1900-1984), rural writer
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish novelist
John Constable (1776-1837), landscape painter
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), explorer, naval officer
T(homas) S(idney) ‘Cow’ Cooper (1803-1902), painter of animals in landscapes
Nicolaus Copernicus = Mikolaj Kopernik (1473-1543), Polish astronomer
Valerius Cordus (1515-1544), German herbalist
Kevin Costner (b. 1955), American actor and film director
Hugh Bamford Cott (1900-1987), zoologist, camouflage expert
Charles Cotton (1630-1687), poet, contributor to The Compleat Angler
Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), surgeon and naturalist
T(homas) A(lfred) Coward (1867-1933), ornithologist
William Cowper (1731-1800), nature poet
James Cox (c. 1723-1800), goldsmith, entrepreneur, owner of Cox’s Museum
Jim Crace (b. 1946), novelist
Samuel Crompton (1753-1827), inventor of the spinning mule
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), French zoologist and palaeontologist
Roald Dahl (1916-1990), storyteller, children’s writer
Sir (Frank) Fraser Darling (1903-1979), naturalist
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist
Richard Dawkins (b. 1941), evolutionary biologist
Roger Deakin (1943-2006), environmentalist, author and wild swimmer
Sir Henry de la Beche (1796-1885), geologist, first director of Geological Survey
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), French Romantic painter
Armand Denis (1896-1971), filmmaker and natural history television presenter
Michaela Denis (1914-2003), filmmaker and natural history presenter (wife of Armand)
William Derham (1657-1735), natural theologian
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), novelist
Gail Dickerson (b. ~1961), artist
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913), German artist, commune founder
(Pedanius) Dioscorides (c. 40-90 AD), Greek physician in Roman army
Jenny Diski (née Simmonds, b. 1947), novelist, essayist, travel writer
Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585), Dutch botanist
Monty Don (b. 1955), gardener and broadcaster
Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton (1878-1951), anti-vivisectionist
J(ohn) F(reeman) M(ilward) Dovaston (1782-1854), gentleman-naturalist and poet
John Dryden (1631-1700), poet and playwright
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), dancer and choreographer
Gerald Durrell (1925-1995), zoologist, natural history writer
Edward Elgar (1857-1934), composer
George S(amuel) Elgood (1851-1943), illustrator specializing in garden paintings
R. Brian Evans (b. ~1936), author of mountain guidebooks
John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist, gardener
Alan Watson Featherstone (b. ~1950), founder of Trees for Life
(Ian) James Ferguson-Lees (b. ~1930), ornithologist
Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865), ship’s captain
H(erbert) J(ohn) Fleure (1877-1969), zoologist and geographer
E(dmund) B(risco) Ford (1901-1988), entomologist
William Forsyth (1737-1804), botanist, royal gardener
Kaspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), German Romantic artist
Errol Fuller (b. 1947), painter, writer on extinct animals
Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German herbalist
Alexander Fussell (c. 1814-1881), illustrator
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), painter of portraits and landscapes
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer
John Gerard (1545-c. 1612), botanist
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French Romantic painter
William Gilpin (1724-1804), artist and aesthete, inventor of the Picturesque
Allen Ginsburg (1926-1997), American Beat poet
Eleanor Glanville (c. 1654-1709), entomologist
James Gleick (b. 1954), American science writer
(Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe (1749-1832), German Romantic writer
Jane Goodall (b. 1934), primatologist
Gorgias (c. 485-c. 380 BC), Sicilian Greek philosopher
Conrad Gorinsky (b. ~1935), Guyanan chemist, ethnobotanist
John Gould (1804-1881), ornithologist and illustrator
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), American evolutionary biologist
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), banker, writer of children’s books
Sir Edward Grey = Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), statesman and ornithologist [OW]
George Bellas (Greenough) (1778-1855), geologist
Jay Griffiths (b. 1965), journalist, author
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794), Swiss landscape artist
Frances Evelyn Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861-1938), socialite
Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963), Swedish anti-vivisectionist
Frederic Michael Halford (1844-1914), dry fly angler
Sir Peter Hall (b. 1930), film director
Richard W. Hall (1882-1935), Lakeland climber
Geoff(rey) (Stephen) Hamilton (1936-1996), gardener, presenter of Gardeners’ World
Robin Hanbury-Tenison (b. 1936), explorer, president of Survival International
Sir Alister Hardy (1896-1985), marine zoologist
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), novelist
James Hargreaves (1720-1778), inventor of the spinning jenny
Hans Hass (1919-2013), Austrian underwater filmmaker
Lotte Hass (1928-2015), German actress and filmmaker, wife of Hans
Colonel Peter Hawker (1786-1853), soldier, diarist and sportsman
(Benjamin) Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), sculptor of the ‘Crystal Palace Dinosaurs’
John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), parson-naturalist
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German spiritual novelist
Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC), Greek historian
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674), lyric poet
John Frederick Herring, Senior (1795-1865), coachman and painter of horses
John Frederick Herring, Junior (1820-1907), painter of horses
Stephanie Hilborne (b. 1968), leader of Wildlife Trusts
James Hill (1919-1994), filmmaker: director of Born Free
Octavia Hill (1838-1912), social campaigner, co-founder of National Trust
Stephen Hislop (1817-1863), missionary and geologist
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), political philosopher, author of Leviathan
P(hilip) A(rthur) D(ominic) Hollom (1912-2014), ornithologist
Robert Home (1752-1834), painter of portraits and Indian landscapes
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
William Hooker (1779-1832), botanical artist to the Royal Horticultural Society
Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), botanist, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Jesuit priest, nature-celebrating poet
W(illiam) G(eorge) Hoskins (1908-1992), landscape historian
William Howitt (1792-1879), writer
Ted Hughes (1930-1998), poet laureate
Kate Humble (b. 1968), television presenter
John Hunter (1728-1793) (younger brother of William), comparative anatomist and collector
Revd. Robert Hunter (1823-1897), missionary, geologist and encyclopaedist
Sir Robert Hunter (1844-1913), solicitor, co-founder of the National Trust
William Hunter (1718-1783), human anatomist and collector
James Hutton (1726-1797), geologist, advocate of uniformitarianism
Julian Huxley (1887-1975), evolutionary biologist
Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), comparative anatomist, ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’
Ferrante Imperato (c. 1550-c. 1625), Neapolitan apothecary and collector
Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), Spanish archbishop
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Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), garden designer and painter
Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), country writer
Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893), parson-naturalist
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), man of letters
Lawrence Johnston (1871-1958), American garden designer
Revd. F(rancis) C(harles) R(obert) Jourdain (1865-1940), egg-collector, ornithologist
John June (fl. 1740-1770), engraver and illustrator
Tony Juniper (b. 1960), environmentalist
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher
Richard Kearton (1862-1928), wildlife photographer
William Kent (c. 1685-1748), landscape architect
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician and physicist
John Graham Kerr (1869-1957), zoologist
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), clergyman and novelist
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), writer
Miranda Krestovnikoff (b. 1973), television presenter
Rudolf (von) Laban (1879-1958), Hungarian pioneer of modern dance
David Lack (1910-1973), ornithologist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), painter and sculptor of animals
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist
William Elford Leach (1790-1836), eccentric British Museum zoologist and librarian
Timothy Leary (1920-1996), American psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drugs
Angie Lewin (b. ~1963), printmaker and textile designer
C(live) S(taples) Lewis (1898-1963), scholar of Middle English, fantasy writer
Norman Lewis (1908-2003), travel writer, journalist
John Lightfoot (1735-1788), parson-naturalist and museum curator
David Lindo (b. ~1974), writer, broadcaster and ‘bird guider’
Linnaeus = Carl von Linné (1707-1778), Swedish naturalist
David Livingstone (1813-1873), missionary and explorer
Lobelius = Matthias de l’Obel (1538-1616), French/Flemish physician and botanist
Ronald Lockley (1903-2000), Welsh naturalist
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), author of the Doctor Dolittle children’s books
Richard Long (b. 1945), land artist
Longinus = Pseudo-Longinus (in first centuries AD), Greek critic, author of On the Sublime
Edward Lorenz (1917-2008), American meteorologist
Claude Lorrain: see Claude
A(rthur) O(ncken) Lovejoy (1873-1962), American philosopher and intellectual historian
Louis Lumière (1864-1948), pioneering filmmaker (with his brother Auguste)
Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), architect
Richard Lydekker (1849-1915), palaeontologist, biogeographer
Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist
Vera Lynn (b. 1917), singer and actress
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Richard Mabey (b. 1941), natural history author
Ewan MacColl = Jimmie Miller (1915-1989), folk singer-songwriter
Robert Macfarlane (b. 1976), nature writer
William MacGillivray (1796-1852), Scottish naturalist, ornithologist and wildlife artist
Dorothy Maclean (b. 1920), Canadian spiritual writer, co-founder of Findhorn Foundation
Robert Malthus (1766-1834), philosopher
Chris Manley (b. ~1948-), expert on moths [OW]
Gordon Manley (1902-1980), climatologist
Gideon Mantell (1790-1852), surgeon and palaeontologist, discoverer of Iguanodon
William Markwick (1739-1812), gentleman naturalist
John Marley (1823-1891), mining engineer
Conrad Martens (1801-1878), landscape painter
Richard Martin (1754-1834), Irish politician, campaigner against cruelty to animals
(Patrick) Rory McGrath (b. 1956), comedian
H(arold) J(ohn) Massingham (1888-1952), ruralist writer
Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), Italian herbalist
Gavin Maxwell (1914-1969), natural history writer (grandson of Sir Herbert)
Sir Herbert Maxwell (1845-1937), writer and politician
Peter Mayle (b. 1939), rural writer
Kenneth Mellanby (1908-1993), ecologist, founder of Monks Wood Experimental Station
Christopher Merrett (1614-1695), English physician and naturalist
C(ecil) H(enry) ‘Mr’ Middleton (1886-1945), gardener, ‘Dig for Victory’ broadcaster
George Monbiot (b. 1963), environmental activist and writer
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (1887-1976), army commander
Gerard Morgan-Grenville (1931-2009), founder of Centre for Alternative Technology
Michael Morpurgo (b. 1943), writer of children’s books
Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893), Irish priest, naturalist and author
Johnny Morris (1916-1999), natural history television presenter
William Morris (1834-1896), textile designer, fantasy writer, Arts & Crafts pioneer
George Montagu (1753-1815), ornithologist
Charles de Montalembert (1810-1870), French historian
Guy Mountfort (1905-2003), ornithologist
(John) Ivor Murray (1824-1903), Scottish surgeon, plant collector, advocate of balneotherapy
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J(ohn) A(shworth) Nelder (1924-2010), statistician
Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729), inventor of the steam engine
Alfred Newton (1829-1907), zoologist
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), physicist
(Edward) Max Nicholson (1904-2003), ornithologist
Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), diplomat and writer
(William Edgar) ‘Bill’ Oddie (b. 1941), comedian, ornithologist, television presenter
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), anatomist, palaeontologist, inventor of the name ‘dinosaur’
William Paley (1743-1805), natural theologian
Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259), monk and chronicler
Jeremy Paxman (b. 1950), journalist
Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), gardener, designer of the Crystal Palace
John Peel (c. 1776-1854), farmer, huntsman
Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), travel and natural history writer
Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), American ornithologist
James Petiver (1663-1718), apothecary, naturalist, collector
John Phillips (1800-1874), geologist, keeper of the Oxford Museum
Oliver G(regory) Pike (1877-1963), wildlife photographer, pioneer of nature film
‘Peter Pindar’ = John Wolcot (1738-1819), satirist
Christophe Plantin = Christoffel Plantijn (c. 1520-1589), Flemish printer of herbals
Hugh Plat (c. 1552-1608), agriculturalist
John Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician, advocate of Hutton’s theory of geology
Pliny the Elder = Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79 AD), Roman historian and naturalist
Robert Plot (1640-1696), naturalist, first keeper of Ashmolean Museum
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), French physicist
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), poet
Eliot Porter (1901-1990), American nature photographer
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), children’s writer
Francis Pryor (b. 1945), archaeologist
Heinrich Pudor = Heinrich ‘Scham’ (1865-1943), German writer on naturism
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Jonathan Raban (b. 1942), travel writer and novelist
Sir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), statesman, founder of Singapore
John Ramsbottom (1885-1974), mycologist
Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851-1920), priest and conservationist, a founder of National Trust
John Ray (1627-1705), ornithologist
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), artist
Charles Richardson (1908-1994), military planner
Alice Roberts (b. 1973), anatomist, television presenter
David Rothenberg (b. 1962), philosopher and musician
Benny Rothman (1911-2002), political activist
(Lionel) Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), banker and zoologist
(Nathaniel) Charles Rothschild (1877-1923), banker, entomologist, founder of Wildlife Trusts
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French Romantic, moral and political philosopher
Jean Ruel (1474-1537), French botanist
Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629-1682), Dutch (naturalistic) landscape painter
Georg Eberhard Rumpf = Rumphius (1627-1702), German/Dutch botanist
John Ruskin (1819-1900), critic, man of letters
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), Bloomsbury Set writer and gardener
Henry Scherren (1843-1911), natural history writer
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), explorer of the Antarctic
Simon Schama (b. 1945), historian of art
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet, playwright and philosopher
Sir Peter Scott (1909-1989), conservationist, founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), geologist, discoverer of Devonian and Cambrian periods
Dr. Seuss = Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), American children’s book author/illustrator
Anna Sewell (1820-1878), novelist, author of Black Beauty
James Seymour (1702-1752), equestrian painter
John Seymour (1914-2004), campaigner, founder of self-sufficiency movement
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), playwright
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), romantic poet
Thomas H(osmer) Shepherd (1792-1864), architectural and topographical watercolourist
G[eorge] E(dward) M(acKenzie) Skues (1858-1949), lawyer, inventor of nymph fishing [OW]
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish doctor and collector
Dorothy Gladys ‘Dodie’ Smith (1896-1990), novelist and playwright
William ‘Strata’ Smith (1769-1839), geologist, creator of the first geological map of Britain
Daniel Solander (1733-1782), Swedish botanist
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715), entomologist
John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), soldier and explorer
Sir (Laurence) Dudley Stamp (1898-1966), geographer
Ernest Starling (1866-1927), physiologist
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian esoteric philosopher, inventor of biodynamic agriculture
Stendhal = Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), French novelist
Edward Step (1855-1931), natural history writer
Tom (Criddle) Stephenson (1893-1987), journalist, secretary of the Ramblers’ Association
Peter S. Stevens (b. 1936), architect and photographer
Ian Stewart (b. 1945), mathematician
William Strunk, Jr. (1869-1946), American author of a guide to English usage
Charles William George St John (1809-1856), natural history writer
George Stubbs (1724-1806), painter of animals, especially horses
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Tabernaemontanus (1525-1590), German herbalist
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), soldier, politician, owner of Stowe
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), satirical novelist
Thales (624-546 BC), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Theophrastus (c. 371-c. 287 BC), Greek philosopher
Sir Keith (Vivian) Thomas (b. 1933), historian
James Thompson (1700-1748), poet
John Thompson (1785-1866), wood engraver
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), watercolourist, bird illustrator
Henry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862), American author
Percy Thrower (1913-1988), gardener and broadcaster
Robinson Thwaites (1807-1884), engineer, owner of the Vulcan Iron Works, Bradford
Alan Titchmarsh (b. 1949), gardener and broadcaster
J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien (1892-1973), philologist, fantasy writer
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778), Anglican priest, author of hymn ‘Rock of Ages’
J(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Turner (1775-1851), Romantic landscape painter
William Turner (c. 1508-1568), priest and naturalist
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John ‘Jacky’ Vaughan (1799-1868), ironmaster
Voltaire = François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French writer
Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), author/illustrator of guidebooks for hillwalkers
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), naturalist
Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (1717-1797), man of letters
Izaak Walton (c. 1594-1683), ironmonger, author of The Compleat Angler
Hugh Warwick (b. ~1965), ecologist, hedgehog lover
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), architect of the Natural History Museum
Charles Waterton (1782-1865), naturalist, explorer of South America
Sir Archibald Wavell (1883-1950), army commander [OW]
John Wedgwood (c. 1766-1844), horticulturalist, founder of Royal Horticultural Society
Gilbert White (1720-1793), curate and naturalist
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), mathematician
Raymond Williams (1921-1988), Marxist critic
Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971), marine artist, camouflage expert
Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), bishop, opponent of evolution
Emily Williamson (1855-1936), founder of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Henry Williamson (1895-1977), natural history writer
Francis Willughby (1635-1672), ornithologist
Harry Witherby (1873-1943), ornithologist
James Woodforde (1740-1803), parson, diarist [OW]
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), romantic poet
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William Yarrell (1784-1856), bookseller and ornithologist