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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Richard Meinertzhagen, Albert Ernest Kitson, Douglas Hamilton, Joy Adamson, Neil Nightingale, Ernest Hanbury Hankin, William Clift, Alfred William Alcock, George Adamson, Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, Charles Morris Woodford, Mark Carwardine, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Robert Christopher Tytler, Steve Backshall, Anthony Adrian Allen, Charles Pitman, Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton, Denis Owen, Henry Wemyss Feilden, James Motley, Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton, Thomas Brown, Douglas Carruthers, Alfred Hart Everett, Edward Banks, Henry Nottidge Moseley, Clarke Abel, Thomas Hincks, Thomas Hutchins, Joseph Barclay Pentland, Brian Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald, Sam W. Heads, Ronald Winkworth, Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay, Victor Brooke, John Coney Moulton, Philip Herbert Carpenter, Bertram Beresford Osmaston, Michael Lloyd Ferrar, John Charles Melliss, Frederick Webb Headley, James Franklin, William Bernhardt Tegetmeier, British Naturalists' Association, Sowerby family, Grant Sonnex, Charles M. Inglis, Owen Johnson, Oliver Kite. Excerpt: Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen CBE DSO (3 March 1878 - 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist. Meinertzhagen was born into a socially connected, wealthy British family. Richard's father, Daniel Meinertzhagen VI, was head of a merchant-bank dynasty with an international reputation, second in importance to the Rothschilds. His mother was Georgina Potter, sister of Beatrice Webb, a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Meinertzhagen's surname derives from the town Meinerzhagen in Germany, the home of an ancestor. On his mother's side (the wealthy Potters), he was of English descent. Among his relations, in large numbers, were "many of Britain's titled, rich and influential personages." Although he had his doubts, he was a distan...
