biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1720–93)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and naturalist, born in Selborne, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he became a fellow of Oriel College. He was ordained in 1751, and from 1755 lived uneventfully as curate in Selborne, where he kept a journal containing observations made in his garden. His letters on the subject, written over a period of 20 years, were published as The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). It has become an English classic: an inspirational naturalist's handbook, it has never been out of print. |
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