William Ogilby

William Ogilby (* 1808, † September 1, 1873 in Altnachree Castle, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) was an Irish barrister and naturalist.

Life

After completing his studies at Trinity College in Dublin practiced Ogilby 1832 to 1846 as a barrister in London. In 1839 he was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Zoological Society of London. In 1846 he resigned this office and was land managers in the area of ​​County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. During the Great Famine in Ireland, he left the palace built Altnachree Castle, which was completed in the 1860s.

In his journal, the Magazine of Natural History, he described numerous Säugetiertaxa that were sent to him from Europe and from the African, Asian and Australian colonies. On a trip through Germany Ogilby collected many animal species that have been described by his friend Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893) in the Annals of Natural History.

1851 married Adelaide Charlotte Douglas Ogilby. The couple had seven children. Of his son James Douglas Ogilby (1853-1925) later became a noted ichthyologist in Australia.

Dedikationsnamen

1838 named George Robert Waterhouse the Ogilby Ducker ( Cephalophus ogilbyi ) and 1841, the Western brush -tailed kangaroo rats ( Bettongia ogilbyi penicillata ) in honor of William Ogilby. The subspecies Paguma larvata ogilbyi of larvae scooter was in 1846 by Louis Fraser ( 1810-1866 ) described.