Anthony Collett

Who was Anthony Collett?

Anthony Collett was an author and writer on natural history subjects and was nature correspondent for The Times during the 1910s and 1920s.

He was born at Cromhall, Gloucestershire, educated at Bradfield School and Oriel College, Oxford.

In 1917, he was described as "of 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London, W.C.", which strongly suggests that he was a lawyer, or at any rate involved in the legal profession in some capacity.

W. H. Auden used many phrases from Collett's Changing Face of England in his poems.

The Chase, a 130-acre woodland in Woolton Hill, was dedicated to the memory of Anthony Collett when the land was presented to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Kenneth Swan as a nature reserve and bird sanctuary.