Gregory Mathews
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1876 – 1949
Who was Gregory Mathews?
Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE was an Australian amateur ornithologist.
Mathews made his fortune in mining shares, and moved to England around 1900.
He was Chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1935-1938. He was made CBE in 1939 for his services to ornithology.
Mathews described M. s. musgravei, currently recognized as a subspecies of the Splendid Fairy-wren, in 1922 as a new species of bird.
In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, and served as its President 1946-1947. He donated his ornithological library to the National Library of Australia in 1939.
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