Prideaux John Selby

Eider duck from "Illustrations of British Ornithology"
Melanitta perspicillata from "Jardine's Illustrations of the Duck Tribe"
Prideaux John Selby
Born(1788-07-23)23 July 1788
Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Died27 March 1867(1867-03-27) (aged 78)
Bamburgh, Northumberland, England
Occupationornithologist, botanist, artist
NationalityBritish

Prideaux John Selby FRSE FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist.

Life

Selby was born in Bondgate Street in Alnwick in Northumberland, the eldest son of George Selby of Beal and Twizell (d.1804),[1] and his wife, Margaret Cook. He was educated at Durham School.[2]

He studied at University College, Oxford. He succeeded in 1804 to the family estates at Beal, and added to the landholdings there at a cost of some £14000 in about 1840. He sold the Beal estate amounting to 1,450 acres (590 ha) in 1850 for £47000 (£6,348,000 at today's prices).

He died at Twizell House and was buried in Bamburgh churchyard.

Family

In 1810, he married Lewis Tabitha Mitford (1782–1859) daughter of Bertram Osbaldeston Mitford (1748–1800) of Dennet's Hall in Leicester.[3] They had three daughters.

Work

Selby is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology (1821–1834), the first set of life-sized illustrations of British birds. He also wrote Illustrations of Ornithology with William Jardine and A History of British Forest-trees (1842).

Many of the illustrations in his works were drawn from specimens in his collection. His wife’s first cousin and friend, Lt John Atherton of the 13th Light Dragoons who died on passage from Madras to England onboard the Rockingham in July 1827 sent a variety of specimens.[4][5] Text appearing immediately before the following illustration states that Lt Atherton took the passage for the benefit of his health.

Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis)

Lt John Atherton, was the brother of Robert Atherton of Sri Lanka.

In addition to the above works he contributed to Jardine's Naturalist's Library the volumes on the pigeons (1835) and the parrots (1836), the latter illustrated by Edward Lear. He was for some time one of the editors of the Magazine of Zoology and Botany.

His collections were sold in 1885 and became dispersed. The South African birds collected by Andrew Smith went to the Zoology Museum of the University of Cambridge.

The standard author abbreviation P.Selby is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ ODNB P J Selby
  2. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Lewis Tabitha Mitford b. 1782 d. 1859: British 1820 Settlers to South Africa".
  4. ^ "Parbury's Oriental Herald & Colonial Intelligencer, Vol I, No III, March". fibis.org. 1838.
  5. ^ "Death of John Atherton in 1827" (PDF). The Limerick Chronicle.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  P.Selby.

Further references

Bowey, K. and Newsome, M. (Ed) 2012. The Birds of Durham. Durham Bird Club. ISBN 978-1-874701-03-3

Bibliography

  • Mullens; Swann. (1918). A Bibliography of British Ornithology.
  • Raine, Revd. James (1852). The History and Antiquities of North Durham. p338
  • Jackson, Christine E. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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