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British ornithologist
Philip Arthur Dominic Hollom (9 June 1912 – 20 June 2014) was a British
ornithologist .
Life
He was born in
Bickley , Kent, England,
[1]
[2] the second of five sons. His younger brother, Sir
Jasper Hollom , was
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1970 to 1980, having been
Chief Cashier of the Bank of England from 1962 to 1966.
[3]
In March 1951 he became a member of the editorial board of
British Birds magazine
[1] under the senior editorship of
Max Nicholson , whom he succeeded in 1960.
[1] Nicholson, who had remained on the editorial board, and Hollom stood down in 1972 and were replaced on the board by
Ian Wallace and
Malcolm Ogilvie .
[4]
Hollom was a Council member and Vice President of the
Ornithological Society of the Middle East .
[5] He was the first chairman of the
British Birds Rarities Committee
[1] and was awarded the
British Trust for Ornithology 's Tucker Medal in 1954
[6] and the
British Ornithologists' Union 's Union Medal "for his outstanding contribution to the BOU and to ornithology" in 1984.
[6]
He lived in
Hydestyle , Surrey, from the mid-1980s until his death.
[1] He
turned 100 in June 2012
[7] and died on 20 June 2014 at the age of 102.
[6] He had been a member of the BOU for 81 years.
[6] Hollom was survived by his daughter and two sons.
[3]
Bibliography
The Great Crested Grebe Enquiry 1931 by
T. H. Harrisson and P. A. D. Hollom.
H. F. & G. Witherby (1932)
A field guide to the birds of Britain and Europe by
Roger Peterson ,
Guy Mountfort , P.A.D. Hollom.
Collins , 1954
The Popular Handbook of British birds . H. F. & G. Witherby (1952, revised 1955, 1962, 1968, 1988)
Trapping Methods for Bird Ringers (BTO Guide No. 1) (1955)
The Popular Handbook of Rarer British birds . H. F. & G. Witherby (1960) - included specially commissioned plates, by
David Reid-Henry and
Peter Scott
Birds of the Middle East and North Africa .
Poyser
ISBN
0-85661-047-X (1988)
Dedicated to Hollom
References
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a
b
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e Pitches, Adrian (June 2012). "Phil Hollom at 100". British Birds . 105 (6): 342–3.
ISSN
0007-0335 .
^
Contemporary Authors . Volumes 15–16,
Gale Research Company , Detroit, Michigan 1966, page 214
^
a
b
"Phil Hollom - obituary" . Telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ A history of British Birds , Malcolm Ogilvie, James Ferguson-Lees and Richard Chandler,
British Birds 100 (2007) 3-15
^
"OSME News, 2004" . Osme.org . Archived from
the original on 25 March 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
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a
b
c
d
"Phil Hollom, 1912 - 2014" . British Ornithologists' Union. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014 .
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"Happy 100th birthday Phil Hollom!" (Press release).
British Trust for Ornithology . 9 June 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012 .
Sources
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