Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet

Painting by Sir William Jardine, 1833

Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire (February 23, 1800, Edinburgh to November 21, 1874, Sandown, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish naturalist.^[1][2]

Jardine made natural history available to all levels of Victorian society by editing and issuing the hugely popular forty volumes of The Naturalist's Library. The 40 volumes is divided into four main sections: Ornithology (14 volumes) , Mammalia (13 volumes) , Entomology (7 volumes ) and Ichthyology (6 volumes); each prepared by a leading naturalist. James Duncan wrote the insect volumes. The artists responsible for the illustrations included Edward Lear. The work was published in Edinburgh by W.H Lizars. The frontispiece is a portrait of Latreille

Jardine's other publications included an edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne which re-established White's reputation, Illustrations of Ornithology (1825-43), and an affordable edition of Alexander Wilson's Birds of America.

Jardine was the author of a number of bird species, alone or in conjunction with his friend Prideaux John Selby.

Descendants

In 'Who Do You Think You Are?' transmitted by the BBC on 18 October 2007, it was discovered that Sir Matthew Pinsent, the multiple gold medal Olympic rower, is a direct descendant of William Jardine.

Selected publications

• The natural history of humming-birds (1833)
• The natural history of fishes of the perch family (1835)
• The natural history of the Nectariniadae, or sun-birds (1843)
• Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland, M.A. (1858)

See also

• Jardine Baronets

References

External links

• Jackson, Christine Elisabeth; Davis, Peter (2001). Sir William Jardine: a life in natural history. Leicester University Press. ISBN 0718501640. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yxKl0RcAPDAC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=Christine+Elisabeth+Jackson+et+Peter+Davis+%282001%29.+Sir+William+Jardine&source=bl&ots=w93v7cRH4L&sig=1YsRYHaFL8Q0BSRgoRm1uAV5jAo&hl=en&ei=nmazSp_fIYOi4QaY4K18&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Jardine, Sir William (1838). Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. Part I. Birds of Prey. vol. 9. Edinburgh: W. H. Lizars. http://books.google.com/books?id=mSkOAAAAQAAJ. 

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