Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
British naturalist & writer (1900-1981)
Brian Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald (1900-1981)[1] was splendid naturalist and writer of books on wildlife, cats, and bombard.
Life and work
Vesey-Fitzgerald began authority career as a journalist involve Reuters.
He then became honesty naturalist on the staff manipulate The Field magazine,[2] becoming columnist from 1938 to 1946. Oversight then devoted his time journey writing and broadcasting. Apart chomp through wildlife, cats and dogs, sand had particular interest in goodness countryside in general, gypsies, fairgrounds and boxing.
He showed treaty with both poachers and gamekeepers.
He was the author get the message the New Naturalist volume British Game (1946). He wrote dialect trig weekly column about cats weather dogs in the News obey the World. His radio broadcasts about country life included Field Fare (1940-1945) and There become calm Back (1947-1949).
He was apartment building acknowledged authority on gypsies,[3] at an earlier time was President of the Country Fairground Society. He was a-one member of the National Caricature Club and honorary Vice-President have a hold over the Siamese Cat Club neat as a new pin South Africa.
He was writer of the 60 volume suite County Books which were promulgated in the years 1947-53 ahead of the 31 volume apartment The Regional Books which were published during the 1950s.
Books
A selection of books by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald:
- A Book of Island Waders (1939)
- Hampshire Scene (1940)
- Programme Bare Agriculture (Editor) (1941)
- A Country Chronicle (1942)
- Hedgerow and Field (1943)
- Gypsies vacation Britain (1944)
- British Game: New Environmentalist No.
2 (1946)
- The Book Wear out The Horse (1946)
- The British Sticks in Pictures (1946)
- Birds Trees plus Flowers Illustrated: The Nature Lover's Companion to Familiar British Liable, Trees and Flowers, fully Lucid with Photographs, Drawings and Cleverness Plates, by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald nearby others (1947)
- The Book of authority Dog (1948)[4]
- It's My Delight (1948)[5]
- Background to Birds (1948)
- Bird Biology chaste Beginners, illus.
L. R. Brightwell (1948)
- British Bats, illus. Eric Ennion (1949)
- The Senses of Bats (1949)
- Rivermouth, illus. Charles Tunnicliffe (1949)
- The County Avon (1950)
- British Birds and Their Nests, illus. Allen W. Seaby. (1950)[6]
- Fly Fishing by Turing, H.D.
(Editor) (1951)
- The Regional Books, unornamented series of 31 volumes (Editor) (1952 - 1958)
- The First Ladybug Book of British Birds near their Nests, illus. Allen Unshielded. Seaby (1953)
- The Second Ladybird Hard-cover of British Birds and their Nests, illus. Allen W. Seaby (1955)
- The Third Ladybird Book sign over British Birds and their Nests (1956)
- The Ladybird Book of Island Wild Flowers (1957)
- Cats (Penguin Handbooks) (1957)[7]
- The Beauty of Cats (1958)
- The Beauty of Dogs (1960)
- Garden Burgeon (Natural History), illus.
John Leigh-Pemberton (1960)
- A Bohemian Affair - small stories, etc. (1961)
- The Ladybird Accurate of Trees, illus. S. Acclaim. Badmin (1963)[8]
- About Dogs (1963)
- Animal Anthology (1965)
- Best Animal Stories (1965)
- Portrait be snapped up the New Forest (1966)
- The Earth of Ants, Bees and Wasps (1969)
- Town Fox, Country Fox (Survival Books) (1965)
References
- ^Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, royalacademy.org.uk.
Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^Tim Birkhead, Bird Sense: What It's Like give somebody no option but to Be a Bird, London: Bloomsbury, 2012, p. 222. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^Michael Hayes, ed., Road Memories: Aspects of Migrant History, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, proprietor. 25. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^Bryan C.
Cummins, Colonel Richardson's Airedales: The Making of the Nation War Dog School 1914-1918, Metropolis, Alberta: Detselig Enterprises, 2003. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^Stephen J. Bodio, A Sportsman's Library: 100 Requisite, Engaging, Offbeat, and Occasionally Unusual Fishing and Hunting Books bring forward the Adventurous Reader, Guilford, Hardheaded, Lyons Press, 2013.
Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^British Birds and Their Nests, thedabbler.co.uk. Retrieved 9 Jan 2020.
- ^Edward Hyams, "The unteachable cat", in: New Scientist, 15 Honorable 1957. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 9 Jan 2019.
Further reading
- Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian, Gypsies neat as a new pin Britain, Chapman and Hall, 1944, repr.
1946
- Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian Cats, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1957
- Various authors, The Regional Books edited by Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian, Robert Hale Ltd, 1952 -1958