74; Sir William Jardine 7th Baronet - known for his editing of a long series of natural history books.
Dual citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Jardine was a co-founder of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and contributed to the founding of the Ray Society. He was "keenly addicted to field-sports, and a master equally of the rod and the gun". While ornithology was his main passion, he also studied ichthyology, botany and geology, writing a work on burrows and traces, the Ichnology of Annandale, his ancestral estate. His private natural history museum and library are said to have been the finest in Britain.
He was the first husband of Hyacinth Jardine Symonds. Father of Catherine Dorcas Maule Jardine, married Hugh Edwin Strickland and produced many of the illustrations for Illustrations of Ornithology (identifiable by her initials, CDMS).
Dual citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Jardine was a co-founder of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and contributed to the founding of the Ray Society. He was "keenly addicted to field-sports, and a master equally of the rod and the gun". While ornithology was his main passion, he also studied ichthyology, botany and geology, writing a work on burrows and traces, the Ichnology of Annandale, his ancestral estate. His private natural history museum and library are said to have been the finest in Britain.
He was the first husband of Hyacinth Jardine Symonds. Father of Catherine Dorcas Maule Jardine, married Hugh Edwin Strickland and produced many of the illustrations for Illustrations of Ornithology (identifiable by her initials, CDMS).
74; Sir William Jardine 7th Baronet - known for his editing of a long series of natural history books.
Dual citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Jardine was a co-founder of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and contributed to the founding of the Ray Society. He was "keenly addicted to field-sports, and a master equally of the rod and the gun". While ornithology was his main passion, he also studied ichthyology, botany and geology, writing a work on burrows and traces, the Ichnology of Annandale, his ancestral estate. His private natural history museum and library are said to have been the finest in Britain.
He was the first husband of Hyacinth Jardine Symonds. Father of Catherine Dorcas Maule Jardine, married Hugh Edwin Strickland and produced many of the illustrations for Illustrations of Ornithology (identifiable by her initials, CDMS).
Dual citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Jardine was a co-founder of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and contributed to the founding of the Ray Society. He was "keenly addicted to field-sports, and a master equally of the rod and the gun". While ornithology was his main passion, he also studied ichthyology, botany and geology, writing a work on burrows and traces, the Ichnology of Annandale, his ancestral estate. His private natural history museum and library are said to have been the finest in Britain.
He was the first husband of Hyacinth Jardine Symonds. Father of Catherine Dorcas Maule Jardine, married Hugh Edwin Strickland and produced many of the illustrations for Illustrations of Ornithology (identifiable by her initials, CDMS).
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