Edward Jesse (January 14, 1780 – March 28, 1868),
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natural history, was born at Hutton Cranswick,
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, where his father was vicar of the parish.
He became clerk in a government office in 1798, and for a time was secretary to Lord Dartmouth, when
president of the Board of Control. In 1812 he was appointed commissioner of hackney coaches, and later he became deputy surveyor-general of the royal parks and palaces. On the abolition of this office he retired on a pension, and he died at
Brighton.
The result of his interest in the habits and characteristics of animals was a series of pleasant and popular books on natural history, the principal of which are as follows:
*''Gleanings in Natural History'' (1832–1835)
*''An Angler's Rambles'' (1836)
*''Anecdotes of Dogs'' (1846)
*''Lectures on Natural History'' (1863)
He also edited
Izaak Walton's ''
The Compleat Angler
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'',
Gilbert White
Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) was a " parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist, and ornithologist. He is best known for his ''Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne''.
Life
White was born on ...
's ''Selborne'', and
Leitch Ritchie's ''Windsor Castle'', and wrote a number of handbooks to places of interest, including
Windsor
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and
Hampton Court
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.
He married Matilda, daughter of
Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet. Their son,
John Heneage Jesse, was a noted historian; one of their two daughters was the author and activist
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun.
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1780 births
1868 deaths
English non-fiction writers
English male non-fiction writers