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The English Love Affair with Nature<\/a><\/h2>\n

(Back to Table of Contents<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A<\/a>–B<\/a>–C<\/a>–D<\/a>–E<\/a>–F<\/a>–G<\/a>–H<\/a>–I<\/a>–J<\/a>–K<\/a>–L<\/a>–M<\/a>–N<\/a>–O<\/a>–P<\/a>–Q<\/a>–R<\/a>–S<\/a>–T<\/a>–U<\/a>–V<\/a>–W<\/a>–X<\/a>–Y<\/a>–Z<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Eleazar<\/a>
Eleazar Albin’s Elephant Hawk-Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/a>A<\/strong>
\nRichard Adams (b. 1920), novelist, author of Watership Down
\n(William M.) ‘Bill’ Adams (b. 1955), geographer and conservationist
\nGeorge Adamson (1906-1989), conservationist
\nJoy Adamson (1910-1980), conservationist (wife of George)
\nJoseph Addison (1672-1719), Enlightenment writer
\nLouis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss zoologist
\nW(illiam) T(ownsend) Aiton (1766-1849), botanist
\nAlbert, Prince Consort (1819-1861), husband of Queen Victoria
\nEleazar Albin (c. 1670-c. 1742), natural history illustrator
\nHarold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), army commander
\nSamuel Alexander (1859-1938), philosopher
\nDavid Elliston Allen (b. 1932), social historian
\nProspero Alpino (1553-1617), Italian herbalist
\nAnaximander (c. 610-c. 546 BC), Ionian Greek philosopher
\nAnaximenes (585 BC-528 BC), Ionian Greek philosopher
\nMary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector, finder of Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs
\nPeter Apian = Petrus Apianus = Peter Bienewitz (1495-1552), German writer on astronomy
\nAristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Greek naturalist and philosopher
\nSir David Attenborough (b. 1926), natural history presenter
\nClement Attlee (1883-1967), politician
\nJane Austen (1775-1817), novelist<\/p>\n

<\/a>B<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Lady's<\/a>
Lady’s Slipper Orchid, Cypripedium calceolus<\/span>, by Franz Bauer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), philosopher and statesman
\nRobert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of Scout movement
\nStanley Baldwin (1867-1947), politician
\nPhilip Ball (b. 1962), science writer
\nSir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), botanist
\nGeoffrey Barkas (1896-1979), film director, camouflage officer
\nCicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), illustrator, author of flower fairy books
\nDaines Barrington (1727\/8-1800), lawyer
\nHenry Walter Bates (1825-1892), naturalist
\nFranz Bauer (1758-1840), Austrian botanical artist, illustrator at Kew
\nGaspard\/Caspar Bauhin (1560-1624), Swiss botanist
\nJean Bauhin (1511-1582), French physician
\nJohann\/Jean Bauhin (1541-1613), Swiss botanist
\nWilliam Bayliss (1860-1924), physiologist
\nRalph Beilby (1744-1817), engraver
\nS. Vere Benson (1909-1987), natural history writer
\nMargaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), collector
\nHenri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher of the \u00e9lan vital
\nThomas Bewick (1753-1828), wood engraver, naturalist
\nWilliam Bligh (1754-1817), captain of HMS Bounty
\nEdward Blyth (1810-1873), zoologist, curator of Asiatic Society museum, Calcutta
\nRonald Blythe (b. 1922), rural writer
\nNicolas Boileau(-Despr\u00e9aux) (1636-1711), French man of letters
\nHenry Bolckow (1806-1878), industrialist and politician
\nJohn Boorman (b. 1933), film director
\nRichard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753), patron of the arts, neo-Palladian architect
\nRobert Boyle (1627-1691), scientist
\nTycho Brahe (1546-1601), Danish astronomer
\nCharles Bridgeman (1690-1738), garden designer
\nGeorge Bristow (1863-1947), taxidermist and apparently fraudulent ornithologist
\nCharlotte Bront\u00eb (1816-1855), novelist
\nRichard Brookes (fl. 1750), physician, natural historian
\nCapability Brown (1716-1783), landscape architect
\nRevd. William Buckland (1784-1856), theologian, geologist, palaeontologist [OW]
\nEdwin Beard Budding (1795-1846), engineer, inventor of cylinder lawnmower
\nComte de Buffon = Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707-1788), zoologist
\nDecimus Burton (1800-1881), garden designer and architect
\nCharles Byrne = Charles O’Brien (c. 1761-1783), Irish giant
\nGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824), Romantic poet<\/p>\n

<\/a>C<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Eileen<\/a>
A green house in Eileen Caddy’s Findhorn Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eileen Caddy (1917-2006), new age spiritual teacher, co-founder of Findhorn Foundation
\nPeter Caddy (1917-1994), hotelier, co-founder of Findhorn Foundation
\nRudolf Jakob Camerarius\/Camerer (1665-1721), German botanist
\nSir Edward Hamer Carbutt (1838-1905), engineer and politician
\nThomas Carlyle (1795-1881), man of letters
\nRachel Carson (1907-1964), American biologist and environmentalist
\nWilliam Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), statesman
\nNeville Chamberlain (1869-1940), prime minister
\nGeoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400), poet
\nSir Winston (Leonard) S(pencer-) Churchill (1874-1965), prime minister
\nJohn Clare (1793-1864), rural poet
\nDudley Clarke (1899-1974), military deception strategist
\nClaude (Lorrain) (c. 1600-1682), French historical and mythological landscape painter
\nCarolus Clusius = Charles de l’\u00c9cluse (1526-1609), Dutch herbalist
\nFrances Power Cobbe (1822-1904), anti-vivisectionist
\nWilliam Cobbett (1763-1835), rural campaigner, journalist
\nS(amuel) T(aylor) Coleridge (1772-1834), romantic poet
\nStephen Coleridge (1854-1936), barrister
\nR(obin) G(eorge) Collingwood (1889-1943), historian, philosopher
\nJohn Stewart Collis (1900-1984), rural writer
\nJoseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish novelist
\nJohn Constable (1776-1837), landscape painter
\nCaptain James Cook (1728-1779), explorer, naval officer
\nT(homas) S(idney) ‘Cow’ Cooper (1803-1902), painter of animals in landscapes
\nNicolaus Copernicus = Mikolaj Kopernik (1473-1543), Polish astronomer
\nValerius Cordus (1515-1544), German herbalist
\nKevin Costner (b. 1955), American actor and film director
\nHugh Bamford Cott <\/a>(1900-1987), zoologist, camouflage expert
\nCharles Cotton (1630-1687), poet, contributor to The Compleat Angler
\nJonathan Couch (1789-1870), surgeon and naturalist
\nT(homas) A(lfred) Coward (1867-1933), ornithologist
\nWilliam Cowper (1731-1800), nature poet
\nJames Cox (c. 1723-1800), goldsmith, entrepreneur, owner of Cox’s Museum
\nJim Crace (b. 1946), novelist
\nSamuel Crompton (1753-1827), inventor of the spinning mule
\nGeorges Cuvier (1769-1832), French zoologist and palaeontologist<\/p>\n

<\/a>D<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Duria<\/a>
Duria Antiquior by Henry de la Beche 1830<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roald Dahl (1916-1990), storyteller, children’s writer
\nSir (Frank) Fraser Darling (1903-1979), naturalist
\nCharles Darwin (1809-1882), naturalist
\nRichard Dawkins (b. 1941), evolutionary biologist
\nRoger Deakin (1943-2006), environmentalist, author and wild swimmer
\nSir Henry de la Beche (1796-1885), geologist, first director of Geological Survey
\nEug\u00e8ne Delacroix (1798-1863), French Romantic painter
\nArmand Denis (1896-1971), filmmaker and natural history television presenter
\nMichaela Denis (1914-2003), filmmaker and natural history presenter (wife of Armand)
\nWilliam Derham (1657-1735), natural theologian
\nCharles Dickens (1812-1870), novelist
\nGail Dickerson (b. ~1961), artist
\nKarl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913), German artist, commune founder
\n(Pedanius) Dioscorides (c. 40-90 AD), Greek physician in Roman army
\nJenny Diski (n\u00e9e Simmonds, b. 1947), novelist, essayist, travel writer
\nRembert Dodoens (1517-1585), Dutch botanist
\nMonty Don (b. 1955), gardener and broadcaster
\nNina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton (1878-1951), anti-vivisectionist
\nJ(ohn) F(reeman) M(ilward) Dovaston (1782-1854), gentleman-naturalist and poet
\nJohn Dryden (1631-1700), poet and playwright
\nIsadora Duncan (1877-1927), dancer and choreographer
\nGerald Durrell (1925-1995), zoologist, natural history writer<\/p>\n

<\/a>E<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Terrace, Brockenhurst by G.S. Elgood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Edward Elgar (1857-1934), composer
\nGeorge S(amuel) Elgood (1851-1943), illustrator specializing in garden paintings
\nR. Brian Evans (b. ~1936), author of mountain guidebooks
\nJohn Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist, gardener<\/p>\n

<\/a>F<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Young<\/a>
Young Scots Pines at RSPB Corrimony, planted by Alan Watson Featherstone’s Trees for Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alan Watson Featherstone (b. ~1950), founder of Trees for Life
\n(Ian) James Ferguson-Lees (b. ~1930), ornithologist
\nRobert FitzRoy (1805-1865), ship’s captain
\nH(erbert) J(ohn) Fleure (1877-1969), zoologist and geographer
\nE(dmund) B(risco) Ford (1901-1988), entomologist
\nWilliam Forsyth (1737-1804), botanist, royal gardener
\nKaspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), German Romantic artist
\nErrol Fuller (b. 1947), painter, writer on extinct animals
\nLeonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German herbalist
\nAlexander Fussell (c. 1814-1881), illustrator<\/p>\n

<\/a>G<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a>
Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), painter of portraits and landscapes
\nGalileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer
\nJohn Gerard (1545-c. 1612), botanist
\nTh\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault (1791-1824), French Romantic painter
\nWilliam Gilpin (1724-1804), artist and aesthete, inventor of the Picturesque
\nAllen Ginsburg (1926-1997), American Beat poet
\nEleanor Glanville (c. 1654-1709), entomologist
\nJames Gleick (b. 1954), American science writer
\n(Johann Wolfgang von) Goethe (1749-1832), German Romantic writer
\nJane Goodall (b. 1934), primatologist
\nGorgias (c. 485-c. 380 BC), Sicilian Greek philosopher
\nConrad Gorinsky (b. ~1935), Guyanan chemist, ethnobotanist
\nJohn Gould (1804-1881), ornithologist and illustrator
\nStephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), American evolutionary biologist
\nKenneth Grahame (1859-1932), banker, writer of children’s books
\nSir Edward Grey = Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933), statesman and ornithologist [OW]
\nGeorge Bellas (Greenough) (1778-1855), geologist
\nJay Griffiths (b. 1965), journalist, author
\nSamuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794), Swiss landscape artist
\nFrances Evelyn Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861-1938), socialite<\/p>\n

<\/a>H<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"One<\/a>
Fish by Alister Hardy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963), Swedish anti-vivisectionist
\nFrederic Michael Halford (1844-1914), dry fly angler
\nSir Peter Hall (b. 1930), film director
\nRichard W. Hall (1882-1935), Lakeland climber
\nGeoff(rey) (Stephen) Hamilton (1936-1996), gardener, presenter of Gardeners’ World
\nRobin Hanbury-Tenison (b. 1936), explorer, president of Survival International
\nSir Alister Hardy<\/a> (1896-1985), marine zoologist
\nThomas Hardy (1840-1928), novelist
\nJames Hargreaves (1720-1778), inventor of the spinning jenny
\nHans Hass (1919-2013), Austrian underwater filmmaker
\nLotte Hass (1928-2015), German actress and filmmaker, wife of Hans
\nColonel Peter Hawker (1786-1853), soldier, diarist and sportsman
\n(Benjamin) Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), sculptor of the ‘Crystal Palace Dinosaurs’
\nJohn Stevens Henslow (1796-1861), parson-naturalist
\nHermann Hesse (1877-1962), German spiritual novelist
\nHerodotus (c. 484-425 BC), Greek historian
\nHerrick, Robert (1591-1674), lyric poet
\nJohn Frederick Herring, Senior (1795-1865), coachman and painter of horses
\nJohn Frederick Herring, Junior (1820-1907), painter of horses
\nStephanie Hilborne (b. 1968), leader of Wildlife Trusts
\nJames Hill (1919-1994), filmmaker: director of Born Free
\nOctavia Hill (1838-1912), social campaigner, co-founder of National Trust
\nStephen Hislop (1817-1863), missionary and geologist
\nThomas Hobbes (1588-1679), political philosopher, author of Leviathan
\nP(hilip) A(rthur) D(ominic) Hollom (1912-2014), ornithologist
\nRobert Home (1752-1834), painter of portraits and Indian landscapes
\nSir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
\nWilliam Hooker (1779-1832), botanical artist to the Royal Horticultural Society
\nSir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), botanist, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
\nGerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Jesuit priest, nature-celebrating poet
\nW(illiam) G(eorge) Hoskins (1908-1992), landscape historian
\nWilliam Howitt (1792-1879), writer
\nTed Hughes (1930-1998), poet laureate
\nKate Humble (b. 1968), television presenter
\nJohn Hunter (1728-1793) (younger brother of William), comparative anatomist and collector
\nRevd. Robert Hunter (1823-1897), missionary, geologist and encyclopaedist
\nSir Robert Hunter (1844-1913), solicitor, co-founder of the National Trust
\nWilliam Hunter (1718-1783), human anatomist and collector
\nJames Hutton (1726-1797), geologist, advocate of uniformitarianism
\nJulian Huxley (1887-1975), evolutionary biologist
\nThomas Huxley (1825-1895), comparative anatomist, ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’<\/p>\n

<\/a>I<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ferrante<\/a>
Ferrante Imperato’s Wunderkammer, 1599<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ferrante Imperato (c. 1550-c. 1625), Neapolitan apothecary and collector
\nIsidore of Seville (c. 560-636), Spanish archbishop<\/p>\n

<\/a>J<\/strong>
\nGertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), garden designer and painter
\nRichard Jefferies (1848-1887), country writer
\nLeonard Jenyns (1800-1893), parson-naturalist
\nDr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), man of letters
\nLawrence Johnston (1871-1958), American garden designer
\nRevd. F(rancis) C(harles) R(obert) Jourdain (1865-1940), egg-collector, ornithologist
\nJohn June (fl. 1740-1770), engraver and illustrator
\nTony Juniper (b. 1960), environmentalist<\/p>\n

<\/a>K<\/strong>
\nImmanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher
\nRichard Kearton (1862-1928), wildlife photographer
\nWilliam Kent (c. 1685-1748), landscape architect
\nJohannes Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician and physicist
\nJohn Graham Kerr (1869-1957), zoologist
\nCharles Kingsley (1819-1875), clergyman and novelist
\nRudyard Kipling (1865-1936), writer
\nMiranda Krestovnikoff (b. 1973), television presenter<\/p>\n

<\/a>L<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"(3.2)<\/a>
Edwin Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rudolf (von) Laban (1879-1958), Hungarian pioneer of modern dance
\nDavid Lack (1910-1973), ornithologist
\nJean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist
\nSir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), painter and sculptor of animals
\nD(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist
\nWilliam Elford Leach (1790-1836), eccentric British Museum zoologist and librarian
\nTimothy Leary (1920-1996), American psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drugs
\nAngie Lewin (b. ~1963), printmaker and textile designer
\nC(live) S(taples) Lewis (1898-1963), scholar of Middle English, fantasy writer
\nNorman Lewis (1908-2003), travel writer, journalist
\nJohn Lightfoot (1735-1788), parson-naturalist and museum curator
\nDavid Lindo (b. ~1974), writer, broadcaster and ‘bird guider’
\nLinnaeus = Carl von Linn\u00e9 (1707-1778), Swedish naturalist
\nDavid Livingstone (1813-1873), missionary and explorer
\nLobelius = Matthias de l’Obel (1538-1616), French\/Flemish physician and botanist
\nRonald Lockley (1903-2000), Welsh naturalist
\nHugh Lofting (1886-1947), author of the Doctor Dolittle children’s books
\nRichard Long (b. 1945), land artist
\nLonginus = Pseudo-Longinus (in first centuries AD), Greek critic, author of On the Sublime
\nEdward Lorenz (1917-2008), American meteorologist
\nClaude Lorrain: see Claude
\nA(rthur) O(ncken) Lovejoy (1873-1962), American philosopher and intellectual historian
\nLouis Lumi\u00e8re (1864-1948), pioneering filmmaker (with his brother Auguste)
\nEdwin Lutyens (1869-1944), architect
\nRichard Lydekker (1849-1915), palaeontologist, biogeographer
\nSir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist
\nVera Lynn (b. 1917), singer and actress<\/p>\n

<\/a>M<\/strong>
\nRichard Mabey (b. 1941), natural history author
\nEwan MacColl = Jimmie Miller (1915-1989), folk singer-songwriter
\nRobert Macfarlane (b. 1976), nature writer
\nWilliam MacGillivray (1796-1852), Scottish naturalist, ornithologist and wildlife artist
\nDorothy Maclean (b. 1920), Canadian spiritual writer, co-founder of Findhorn Foundation
\nRobert Malthus (1766-1834), philosopher
\nChris Manley (b. ~1948-), expert on moths [OW]
\nGordon Manley (1902-1980), climatologist
\nGideon Mantell (1790-1852), surgeon and palaeontologist, discoverer of Iguanodon
\nWilliam Markwick (1739-1812), gentleman naturalist
\nJohn Marley (1823-1891), mining engineer
\nConrad Martens (1801-1878), landscape painter
\nRichard Martin (1754-1834), Irish politician, campaigner against cruelty to animals<\/p>\n

\"Rory<\/a>
Rory McGrath’s Bearded Tit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Patrick) Rory McGrath (b. 1956), comedian
\nH(arold) J(ohn) Massingham (1888-1952), ruralist writer
\nPietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), Italian herbalist
\nGavin Maxwell (1914-1969), natural history writer (grandson of Sir Herbert)
\nSir Herbert Maxwell (1845-1937), writer and politician
\nPeter Mayle (b. 1939), rural writer
\nKenneth Mellanby (1908-1993), ecologist, founder of Monks Wood Experimental Station
\nChristopher Merrett (1614-1695), English physician and naturalist
\nC(ecil) H(enry) ‘Mr’ Middleton (1886-1945), gardener, ‘Dig for Victory’ broadcaster
\nGeorge Monbiot (b. 1963), environmental activist and writer
\nBernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (1887-1976), army commander
\nGerard Morgan-Grenville (1931-2009), founder of Centre for Alternative Technology
\nMichael Morpurgo (b. 1943), writer of children’s books
\nFrancis Orpen Morris (1810-1893), Irish priest, naturalist and author
\nJohnny Morris (1916-1999), natural history television presenter
\nWilliam Morris (1834-1896), textile designer, fantasy writer, Arts & Crafts pioneer
\nGeorge Montagu (1753-1815), ornithologist
\nCharles de Montalembert (1810-1870), French historian
\nGuy Mountfort (1905-2003), ornithologist
\n(John) Ivor Murray (1824-1903), Scottish surgeon, plant collector, advocate of balneotherapy<\/p>\n

<\/a>N<\/strong>
\nJ(ohn) A(shworth) Nelder (1924-2010), statistician
\nThomas Newcomen (1664-1729), inventor of the steam engine
\nAlfred Newton (1829-1907), zoologist
\nSir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), physicist
\n(Edward) Max Nicholson (1904-2003), ornithologist
\nSir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), diplomat and writer<\/p>\n

<\/a>O<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bill<\/a>
Bill Oddie, rallying for nature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(William Edgar) ‘Bill’ Oddie (b. 1941), comedian, ornithologist, television presenter
\nSir Richard Owen (1804-1892), anatomist, palaeontologist, inventor of the name ‘dinosaur’<\/p>\n

<\/a>P<\/strong><\/a>Q<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Matthew<\/a>
Matthew Paris’s 1251 Crossbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

William Paley (1743-1805), natural theologian
\nMatthew Paris (c. 1200-1259), monk and chronicler
\nJeremy Paxman (b. 1950), journalist
\nSir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), gardener, designer of the Crystal Palace
\nJohn Peel (c. 1776-1854), farmer, huntsman
\nThomas Pennant (1726-1798), travel and natural history writer
\nRoger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), American ornithologist
\nJames Petiver (1663-1718), apothecary, naturalist, collector
\nJohn Phillips (1800-1874), geologist, keeper of the Oxford Museum
\nOliver G(regory) Pike (1877-1963), wildlife photographer, pioneer of nature film
\n‘Peter Pindar’ = John Wolcot (1738-1819), satirist
\nChristophe Plantin = Christoffel Plantijn (c. 1520-1589), Flemish printer of herbals
\nHugh Plat (c. 1552-1608), agriculturalist
\nJohn Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician, advocate of Hutton’s theory of geology
\nPliny the Elder = Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79 AD), Roman historian and naturalist
\nRobert Plot (1640-1696), naturalist, first keeper of Ashmolean Museum
\nHenri Poincar\u00e9 (1854-1912), French physicist
\nAlexander Pope (1688-1744), poet
\nEliot Porter (1901-1990), American nature photographer
\nBeatrix Potter (1866-1943), children’s writer
\nFrancis Pryor (b. 1945), archaeologist
\nHeinrich Pudor = Heinrich ‘Scham’ (1865-1943), German writer on naturism<\/p>\n

<\/a>R<\/strong>
\nJonathan Raban (b. 1942), travel writer and novelist
\nSir Stamford Raffles (1781-1826), statesman, founder of Singapore
\nJohn Ramsbottom (1885-1974), mycologist
\nHardwicke Rawnsley (1851-1920), priest and conservationist, a founder of National Trust
\nJohn Ray (1627-1705), ornithologist
\nSir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), artist
\nCharles Richardson (1908-1994), military planner
\nAlice Roberts (b. 1973), anatomist, television presenter
\nDavid Rothenberg (b. 1962), philosopher and musician
\nBenny Rothman (1911-2002), political activist
\n(Lionel) Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), banker and zoologist
\n(Nathaniel) Charles Rothschild (1877-1923), banker, entomologist, founder of Wildlife Trusts
\nJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French Romantic, moral and political philosopher
\nJean Ruel (1474-1537), French botanist
\nJacob van Ruisdael (c. 1629-1682), Dutch (naturalistic) landscape painter
\nGeorg Eberhard Rumpf = Rumphius (1627-1702), German\/Dutch botanist
\nJohn Ruskin (1819-1900), critic, man of letters<\/p>\n

<\/a>S<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Sissinghurst's<\/a>
Vita Sackville-West’s garden at Sissinghurst<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), Bloomsbury Set writer and gardener
\nHenry Scherren (1843-1911), natural history writer
\nRobert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), explorer of the Antarctic
\nSimon Schama (b. 1945), historian of art
\nFriedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet, playwright and philosopher
\nSir Peter Scott (1909-1989), conservationist, founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
\nAdam Sedgwick (1785-1873), geologist, discoverer of Devonian and Cambrian periods
\nDr. Seuss = Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), American children’s book author\/illustrator
\nAnna Sewell (1820-1878), novelist, author of Black Beauty
\nJames Seymour (1702-1752), equestrian painter
\nJohn Seymour (1914-2004), campaigner, founder of self-sufficiency movement
\nWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616), playwright
\nPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), romantic poet
\nThomas H(osmer) Shepherd (1792-1864), architectural and topographical watercolourist
\nG[eorge] E(dward) M(acKenzie) Skues (1858-1949), lawyer, inventor of nymph fishing [OW]
\nSir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish doctor and collector
\nDorothy Gladys ‘Dodie’ Smith (1896-1990), novelist and playwright
\nWilliam ‘Strata’ Smith (1769-1839), geologist, creator of the first geological map of Britain
\nDaniel Solander (1733-1782), Swedish botanist
\nMary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1630-1715), entomologist
\nJohn Hanning Speke (1827-1864), soldier and explorer
\nSir (Laurence) Dudley Stamp (1898-1966), geographer
\nErnest Starling (1866-1927), physiologist
\nRudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Austrian esoteric philosopher, inventor of biodynamic agriculture
\nStendhal = Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), French novelist
\nEdward Step (1855-1931), natural history writer
\nTom (Criddle) Stephenson (1893-1987), journalist, secretary of the Ramblers’ Association
\nPeter S. Stevens (b. 1936), architect and photographer
\nIan Stewart (b. 1945), mathematician
\nWilliam Strunk, Jr. (1869-1946), American author of a guide to English usage
\nCharles William George St John (1809-1856), natural history writer
\nGeorge Stubbs (1724-1806), painter of animals, especially horses<\/p>\n

<\/a>T<\/strong>
\nTabernaemontanus (1525-1590), German herbalist
\nRichard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), soldier, politician, owner of Stowe
\nWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), satirical novelist
\nThales (624-546 BC), pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
\nTheophrastus (c. 371-c. 287 BC), Greek philosopher
\nSir Keith (Vivian) Thomas (b. 1933), historian
\nJames Thompson (1700-1748), poet
\nJohn Thompson (1785-1866), wood engraver
\nArchibald Thorburn (1860-1935), watercolourist, bird illustrator
\nHenry D(avid) Thoreau (1817-1862), American author
\nPercy Thrower (1913-1988), gardener and broadcaster
\nRobinson Thwaites (1807-1884), engineer, owner of the Vulcan Iron Works, Bradford
\nAlan Titchmarsh (b. 1949), gardener and broadcaster
\nJ(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien (1892-1973), philologist, fantasy writer
\nAugustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778), Anglican priest, author of hymn ‘Rock of Ages’
\nJ(oseph) M(allord) W(illiam) Turner (1775-1851), Romantic landscape painter
\nWilliam Turner (c. 1508-1568), priest and naturalist<\/p>\n

<\/a>U<\/strong><\/a>V<\/strong>
\nJohn ‘Jacky’ Vaughan (1799-1868), ironmaster
\nVoltaire = Fran\u00e7ois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French writer<\/p>\n

<\/a>W<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Langdale fells, beloved of Wainwright and Wordsworth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), author\/illustrator of guidebooks for hillwalkers
\nAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), naturalist
\nHorace Walpole, Earl of Orford (1717-1797), man of letters
\nIzaak Walton (c. 1594-1683), ironmonger, author of The Compleat Angler
\nHugh Warwick (b. ~1965), ecologist, hedgehog lover
\nAlfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), architect of the Natural History Museum
\nCharles Waterton (1782-1865), naturalist, explorer of South America
\nSir Archibald Wavell (1883-1950), army commander [OW]
\nJohn Wedgwood (c. 1766-1844), horticulturalist, founder of Royal Horticultural Society
\nGilbert White (1720-1793), curate and naturalist
\nAlfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), mathematician
\nRaymond Williams (1921-1988), Marxist critic
\nNorman Wilkinson (1878-1971), marine artist, camouflage expert
\nSamuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), bishop, opponent of evolution
\nEmily Williamson (1855-1936), founder of Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
\nHenry Williamson (1895-1977), natural history writer
\nFrancis Willughby (1635-1672), ornithologist
\nHarry Witherby (1873-1943), ornithologist
\nJames Woodforde (1740-1803), parson, diarist [OW]
\nWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850), romantic poet<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"William<\/a>
William Yarrell: from newsagent to ornithologist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/a>X<\/strong><\/a>Y<\/strong><\/a>Z<\/strong>
\nWilliam Yarrell (1784-1856), bookseller and ornithologist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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