Anthony Collett
Anthony Collett (August 22, 1877 – 1929) was an author and writer on natural history subjects and was The Times' nature correspondent during the 1910s and 1920s.
He was born at Cromhall, Gloucestershire, educated at Bradfield School and Oriel College, Oxford.
In 1917, he was described as "of 5 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London, W.C.", which strongly suggests that he was a lawyer, or at any rate involved in the legal profession in some capacity.
W. H. Auden used many phrases from Collett's Changing Face of England in his poems.
The Chase, a 130-acre (0.53 km2) woodland in Woolton Hill, was dedicated to the memory of Anthony Collett (according to a plaque on the site) when the land was presented to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Kenneth Swan as a nature reserve and bird sanctuary.
[edit] Bibliography (incomplete)
- A Handbook of British Inland Birds (1906)
- The Changing Year (undated)
- The Changing Face of England (1926)
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