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Frank Ludlow
After the war he went into the
OBE
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(10 August 1885 – 25 March 1972) was an English
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officer stationed in the British Mission at Lhasa
Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa (city), Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China.
Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining ...
and a naturalist
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.
Life
He was born inChelsea, London
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and studied at West Somerset County School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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.Stearn, WT (1974) Obituaries: Frank Ludlow. Ibis 116(2):234. Ludlow received a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge in natural sciences in 1908. During this time he studied botany under Professor Marshal Ward, father of Frank Kingdon-Ward
Francis Kingdon-Ward, born Francis Kingdon Ward OBE, (6 November 1885 in Manchester – 8 April 1958) was an English botanist, explorer, plant collector and author. He published most of his books as Frank Kingdon-Ward and this hyphenated form ...
. He taught at Sind College Karachi
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(where he became vice principal and professor of biology and lecturer in English).
During World War I he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers as a Second Lieutenant 22 July 1916 and was attached to the 1st battalion, 97th Deccan Infantry 31 January 1917. He was promoted Lieutenant 22 July 1917.
After the war he went into the Indian Education Service
The Indian Education Service or Indian Educational Service (IES) formed part of the British Raj between 1896 and 1924, when overseas recruitment ceased. It was an administrative organisation running educational establishments in British India, larg ...
.
In the Birthday Honours 1927 (London Gazette 3 June 1927) he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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.
In 1927 he retired to Srinagar, Kashmir and travelled extensively in the Himalayas including Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...
and Kashmir
Kashmir ( or ) is the Northwestern Indian subcontinent, northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term ''Kashmir'' denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir P ...
. In 1929 he met George Sherriff while staying in Kashgar with the consul general Frederick Williamson. He later took charge of the British Mission in Lhasa from 1942 to 1943. During his time in India
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he studied natural history and collected birds and botanical specimens. He made expeditions to parts of the Himalayas and Tibet along with George Sherriff
Major George Sherriff (1898–1967) was a Scottish explorer and plant collector.
Biography
Born in Larbert, he was educated at Sedbergh School and attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1918 he took a commission in the Royal Garriso ...
(1898-1967).
He collected nearly 7000 bird specimens which are now in the Natural History Museum
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.
The species '' Alcippe ludlowi'', '' Bhutanitis ludlowi'' and several other taxa including a subspecies of hedgehog (originally described as ''Paraechinus ludlowi'' Thomas) '' Paraechinus aethiopicus ludlowi'' Thomas from Hit, Iraq are named after him.J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26 (1919):748.
See also
* Branklyn GardenPublications
* Ludlow, F. (1920) Notes on the nidification of certain birds in Ladak. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 27: 141–146. * Ludlow,F (1940) The Long-tailed Duck (''Clangula hyemalis'') in Kashmir. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 41(3):666. * Ludlow,F (1915) Mallard breeding in the Karachi Zoo. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 23(3):584. * Ludlow,F (1945) The Persian Ground Chough (''Podoces pleskei''). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 45(2):233-234. * Ludlow,F (1945) The Whooper Swan (''Cygnus cygnus''). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 45(3):421. * Ludlow,F (1934) Catching of Chikor 'Alectoris graeca chukar'' (Gray)in Kashmir. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 37(1):222 * Ludlow,F (1928) Dongtse, or stray bird notes from Tibet. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 33(1):78-83. * Ludlow,F (1916) Breeding of the Marbled Teal ''Marmaronetta angustirostris'' and other birds at Sonmeani, Baluchistan. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24(2):368-369. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Ibis 14 1(1):1-46. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Part II. Ibis 14 *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Ibis 14 1(1), 1-46.1(2):249-293. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1937) The birds of Bhutan and adjacent territories of Sikkim and Tibet. Part III. Ibis 14 1(3):467-504. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1933) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part I. Ibis 13 3(2):240-259. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1933) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part II. Ibis 13 3(3):440-473. *Ludlow,F (1928) Birds of the Gyantse neighbourhood, southern Tibet. Ibis 12 4(2):211-232. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1934) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part IV. Ibis 13 4(1), 95-125. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1940) Systematic notes on Indian birds - V. Ibis, 14 4(1):147-150. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1944) The birds of South-Eastern Tibet. Ibis 86(1):43-86. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1944) The birds of South-Eastern Tibet. Ibis 86(2):176-208. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1944) The birds of South-Eastern Tibet. Ibis 86(3):348-389. *Ludlow,F (1950) The birds of Lhasa. Ibis 92(1):34-45. *Ludlow,F (1951) The birds of Kongbo and Pome, South-East Tibet. Ibis 93(4):547-578. *Ludlow,F; Kinnear,NB (1933) A contribution to the ornithology of Chinese Turkestan. Part III. Ibis, 13(3):658-694.References
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