biography
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Seton, Ernest Thompson
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originally Ernest Evan Thompson
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pronunciation:
[seetn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1946)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, writer, and illustrator, born in Durham, Co Durham, NE England, UK. The twelfth of 14 children, he emigrated to Canada with his family (1866) when his father's shipping business failed. He studied art, but returned to his first love, natural history, writing and illustrating a series of books about birds and animals, but critics accused him of humanizing his wild creatures for narrative effect. He became a strong proponent of conservation and of preserving Indian culture and woodcraft skills. A founder of the Boy Scouts of America (1910), he resigned as chief scout (1915) to protest against former President Theodore Roosevelt's campaign to ‘militarize’ scouting. He spent his last years in a country house he built in New Mexico. |
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