Sir Herbert Charles Arthur Langham, 13th Baronet (24 May 1870, Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire – 3 October 1951, Tempo) was an English landowner, photographer,

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Life

He was educated at

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and later became a lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment. He married Ethel (known in the family as Jenny) Tennent in 1893 and came to live in Tempo Manor, County Fermanagh, which she had inherited. The house and estate had been built by her grandfather, another naturalist, James Emerson Tennent. Langham was deputy lieutenant and

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for the county. In 1930 he was appointed

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. After his death in 1951, his son John inherited his title and the Manor.

Photography

Langham used a full-plate camera with a tripod and hand-held cameras manufactured by

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and Voigtländer and other cameras from the American company Kodak. His subjects included the village and people of Tempo, the Alps, family and the

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Entomology

From 1890 Langham spent spring and summer in the

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. He was primarily a collector. His butterfly and moth collection includes English and Irish specimens. The French Alps, Swiss Alps and Alpine collection is butterflies only and is augmented by specimens (purchased) from Scandinavia,

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), Persia, North Africa and Russia.

Sources

*Maguire, W. A and Nash, R. ''Heydays Fair-Days and Not-so-good Old Days: A Fermanagh Estate and Village in the Photographs of the Langham Family 1890-1918''. Belfast: Friars Bush Press 1986. 83 pp. illustrated, paperback.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Langham, Charles 1870 births 1951 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England High Sheriffs of County Fermanagh Northamptonshire Regiment officers Deputy Lieutenants of Fermanagh English entomologists Irish entomologists People from Cottesbrooke People educated at Eton College English landowners