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On 3 December 1867 he married Emily Eliza, daughter of J. W. Burrows of Cookham. 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 sisters were the daughters of naturalist Richard Bowdler Sharpe and his wife Emily Eliza, née Burrows. Surnamed Sharpe, they inserted Bowdler into their name to associate themselves with their father.
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 .
EvaAugusta,born in1871,wasalsoan"artist,colourist" in 1891. Shewasleft£500 in mother's will written 1921 but died in 1922 before her mother.9 Lilian Berthawasborn in1873;was an"artist,colourist" and"sculp(tor)"1891; married in 1899 andwasleft£1,000byhermother in 1928.
Richard Bowdler Sharpe. LLD (Honoris causa, Aberdeen), FLS, FZS, MBOU. An Ornithologist , Sharpe was Assistant Keeper, Vertebrate Section of the British Museum’s Zoology Department from 1895-1909. He had a particular interest in classification and phylogeny and its relation to evolution. A distinguished international founding member of the ...
Nov 22, 2017 · Richard Bowdler Sharpe, an English ornithologist, was born Nov. 22, 1847. Sharpe was a prominent ornithologist in his own right, publishing Monograph of the Kingfishers from 1868 to 1871, and Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise in 1891 and 1898, neither of which we have in our collections...
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