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On 3 December 1867 he married Emily Eliza, [2] daughter of J. W. Burrows of Cookham. [1] He named a species of kingfisher ( Tanysiptera emiliae) after his wife in 1871. [3] [a] They had ten daughters and many of them contributed to his books (and of other authors too) by hand colouring the lithograph plates.
The Bowdler Sharpe sisters (fl. 1885 – 1910) were English colourists of ornithological illustrations. Between 1885 and 1910 at least seven of the ten daughters of Richard Bowdler Sharpe worked as colourists, painting lithographs drawn by Claude Wyatt, J.G. Keulemans and Henrik Grønvold.
Nov 22, 2017 · Today, we feature Sharpe as the friend, biographer, and posthumous editor of the bird man John Gould. Sharpe met Gould in 1864; this was many years after the death of Elizabeth Gould, John Gould’s wife and original artist; now Gould was collaborating with the artist William Matthew Hart.
A distinguished international founding member of the Australian Ornithologists’ Union. Born 22 November 1847, London, the eldest son of Thomas Bowdler Sharpe publisher, Grandson of Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, rector of All Hallows Staining, London.
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history.
Sharpe married in 1867 Emily, daughter of James Walter Burrows of Cookham, who survived him with ten daughters. In 1910 his widow and three daughters were awarded a civil list pension of 90 l .
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RiCHARD BOWDLER SHARPE, an Honorary Fellow of the Ameri-can Ornithologists' Union, died at his home in Chiswick, London, on Christmas Day, 1909, at the age of 62 years, after a brief illness from pneumonia. . Dr. Sharpe was born in London, November 22, 1847, the eldest son of Thomas Bowdler Sharpe, a well-known publisher in London,
