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Last Name Wilson

Given Name Edward Adrian

alt. Names E. A. W. ;

Marriage Oriana Souper ;

Children

Year born 1872 Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham, Gloucester

Year died 1912

Place of death Antarctica

Father's occupation physician Edward Thomas Wilson (1832-1918)

Relatives Mary Agnes Whishaw (1841-1930) (mother) ;

Education Cheltenham College, Oxford, Cambridge, Gonville Caius College, St. George's Hospital Medical School

Country of Activity Antarctica

Worked for E. Wilson: Birds of the Antarctic ; On Whales Seals Birds Ross Sea Victoria Sand (1905) ; National Antarctic Expedition of the S. S. "Discovery unter Capt. Rob. F. Scott 1901-04" (London 1907-12) ; Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961) & Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton (1871-1914) ;

Patronage Cheltenham General Hospital ;

Collaborators

Techniques ornithological, mammal, zoological, marine, and medical watercolour, sepia painting, and pencil drawing

Sample(s) http://www.edwardawilson.com ; https://medium.com/cambridge-animal-alphabet/a-is-for-albatross-6fa642f4e4c4 ;

Archival sources British Museum Natural History ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Adrian_Wilson ;

Published sources AKL ; Lapage 1961: plate 8 & 20-1 ; Sawyer 1971: 200 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 1810 & 4700 ; Cameron 1981: 134-5, 147-150, 152-3 & 155 ;

other Further Places of Activity: Southern Norway and Switzerland.

Surgeon/artist on Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition 1901 & Terra Nova Expedition 1910. See also: https://www.nzaht.org/pages/118-year-old-painting-found-in-antarctica# & https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/services/library/collections/cook-voyages.html

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