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   Finch-Davies
   Claude Gibney
   C. G. D. ; Davies; only after marriage Finch Davies ;
   Aileen Singleton Finch in 1916, daughter of Captain W. Finch, who was head of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
   2 children: a son and a daughter
   1874 or 1875 in Delhi, India
   1920
   Cape Town, South Africa
   Major-General Sir William (later: Governor of Delhi) and Lady Elizabeth B. Davies née Field ;
   
   school in England, then joined the Cape Mounted Riflemen in 1893 at their recruiting office in London, service in Pondoland in South Africa
   South Africa
   Gamebirds & waterfowl of southern Africa. A collection of 68 water-colours, ed. by A.C.Kemp (1986) ;
   British Museum (Natural History) ; South African Ornithologists' Union (founder member); Transvaal Museum.
   ornithologist ->Boyd Robert Horsbrugh ;
   zoological and ornithological drawing and paintings ;
   www.oiseaux.net/photos/claude.gibney.finch-davies/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flamingo00.jpg ;
   original Finch-Davies plates are held by the Transvaal Museum; see various links in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._G._Finch-Davies
   AKL ; A. C. Kemp: Bird Paintings of F.-D. (Jannesburg 1984) ; A celebration of birds. C.G. Finch-Daviesʼs final album of Southern African birds (1990) ; The birds of southern Africa ‎(1982) ; Austin Roberts: Birds of South Africa / Our South African Birds (1940/41, with uncredited use of pl. by F.-D. ; Magee 200 ; Lederer 2019: chap. 8;
   British soldier, staitoned in South Africa since 1893.
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