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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.
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.
Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe (1868 – ), was an English entomologist, colourist and illustrator. Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe was the eldest of ten daughters of Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909) and Emily Eliza Sharpe (née Burrows; 1842–1928). She had 11 sisters and one brother who died in infancy.
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,
SHARPE, RICHARD BOWDLER (1847–1909), ornithologist, was born on 22 Nov. 1847, at 1 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, London, where his father, Thomas Bowdler Sharpe, edited and published 'Sharpe's London Magazine.'. His grandfather, Lancelot Sharpe, was rector of All Hallows Staining, and headmaster of St. Saviour's grammar school, Southwark.
“A monograph of the Alcedinidæ: or, family of kingfishers” by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847‐1909) was issued in 15 parts (including two double‐parts) over the period 1868‐1871, as set out by Zimmer (1926: 575‐576), see Table 1.
