Geoffrey Vernon Townsend Matthews OBE FSB (16 June 1923 – 21 January 2013) was a British ornithologist and conservationist.[1]
Geoffrey Matthews | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 June 1923 |
| Died | 21 January 2013 (aged 89) |
| Occupation(s) | British ornithologist and conservationist |
Biography
editBorn on 16 June 1923 and educated at Bedford School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he completed his doctorate and post-doctoral research, Geoffrey Matthews was director of research and conservation, 1955–1988, and deputy director, 1973–1988, at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge. He was also a professorial fellow at Bristol University between 1970 and 1990.[2]
Matthews died on 21 January 2013.[3]
Publications
edit- Matthews, G. V. T. (1955). Bird navigation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Matthews, G. V. T. (1968). Bird navigation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Matthews, G. V. T. (1971). Vogelflug. München: Goldmann.
- Matthews, G. V. T. (1973). Orientation and Position-finding by Birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199141364.
References
edit- ^ ‘MATTHEWS, Geoffrey Vernon Townsend’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013; online edn, Feb 2013 accessed 18 Aug 2013
- ^ "Geoffrey Matthews".
- ^ "Geoffrey Matthews obituary". 10 February 2013.
Further reading
edit- Rees, Eileen; Smart, Mike (July 2013). "Geoffrey Matthews, OBE (1923–2013)". Ibis. 155 (3): 701–703. doi:10.1111/ibi.12068.
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