Frank Darling (park Manager)
Frank Darling may refer to: * Sir Frank Fraser Darling (1903–1979), English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author * Frank Darling (architect) (1850–1923), Canadian architect {{hndis, Darling, Frank ...
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Frank Fraser Darling
Sir Frank Fraser Darling FRSE (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. He gives his name to the Fraser Darling effect. Early life Fraser Darling was born in Soresby Street in Chesterfield in northern England, the illegitimate son of Harriet Cowley Ellse Darling and Cpt. Frank Moss. His mother was the daughter of a prosperous family from Sheffield. Her family wanted the child to be fostered and forgotten about. However, she would not cooperate and refused to part with Frank. His father, whom he never met, left for East Africa around the time of his birth, and was killed in action on the Kenya-Tanganyika border in 1917. In 1966 Darling revealed to his son that the pioneering plant geographer, Charles Edward Moss, was his uncle. Career After running away from school at the age of 15, Darling was sent to work on a farm in the Pennines. He th ...
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