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Take a look at our definitive timeline of Wilson’s life, spanning from his birth in 1893, through his marriages, the births of his children and all the way through to his untimely death in 1963 ...
Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon.
Alexander and Alison Wilson met while working for MI6 in 1940. The other side of Alec's story has been pieced together by Prof Tim Crook, a journalist and academic who dug and scoured and prodded ...
Alexander Wilson, né le 6 juillet 1766 à Paisley et mort le 23 août 1813 à Philadelphie, est un ornithologue, dessinateur et écrivain américano-écossais. Biographie Enfance et jeunesse. Cinquième des six enfants d'un tisserand et ...
11 de sept. de 2020 · Alexander Wilson’s life was a dynamic one. Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1766 to a working-class family, he began working as a weaver at 13. Despite having left school at a young age, he was an avid reader and poet, much of his published writing focusing on worker’s rights and other social issues (and landing him with fines and prison time on several occasions).
8 de ene. de 2018 · That’s not just a fanciful title—Wilson actually wrote and illustrated American Ornithology, a nine-volume work published in 1814 that illustrated 268 bird species and kindled America’s insatiable appetite for bird knowledge, 30 years before Audubon’s Birds of America.Today, he has five North American birds named in his honor. ...
Alexander Wilson, expatriate Scotsman, poet, & reformer, has been called "the Father of American Ornithology." This collection of his letters, many of them new & many complete for the first time, captures a splendid & stimulating time in American history. Wilson was a confidant of William Bartram, a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, a sensitive personality who set out as he said to make "a ...
