sister Anne was married to Thomas Barker (1722-1809), called 'The father of meteorology'; nephew Samuel Barker, who also kept a naturalist's journal
ordained as a priest after graduating from Oriel College, Oxford; but never actually practiced in Selborne; instead practiced natural history
England, UK
The Natural History of Selborne, 1789, reprint , ed. w. comm. by Anne Secord, 2013; A Naturalist's Calendar, with observations in various branches of natural history, extracted from the papers of the late Rev. Gilbert White of Selborne, (Hampshire, 1795) ;
Thomas Pennant, the leading British zoologist of the day; Daines Barrington, an English barrister and another Fellow of the Royal Society ;
natural history, ornithological, botanical, and zoological drawing ; hand-colouring ;
http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/ :
http://walkawhile.tripod.com/id22.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White ;
A. Newton in Dictionary of National Biography 61 (1900); John William Cousin in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London 1910; D. Worster: Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas, Cambridge 1994; Anne Secord (ed.) introduction to the reprint of G.W.: The Natural History of Selborne (Oxcford 2013).
pioneering English naturalist & ornithologist, also England's first ecologist, who recorded in Hampshire & Markwick in Sussex c.400 plant & animal 1768-1793
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