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David Morrison Reid Henry

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David Morrison Reid Henry (14 September 1919 – 1977; sometimes written Reid-Henry)), of British origin, was an illustrator of birds. He signed his pictures DM Henry or D.M.H.. Played cricket for South Woodford cc 1970. He was the son of entomologist and ornithologist George Morrison Reid Henry and Olive Hobday and had an elder brother, Bruce Charles Reid Henry.

He died in Zimbabwe in 1977.

Bibliography

Henry illustrated:

  • A Falcon in the Field, Jack Mavrogordato
  • The Popular Handbook of Rarer British birds (PAD Hollom) H. F. & G. Witherby (1960)
  • The Birds of the Atlantic Islands (David Armitage Bannerman and W. Mary Bannerman) (4 vols) 1963-1968 ISBN 9780050018026
  • A New Dictionary of Birds, Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson (Ed.), 1964
  • Eagles, Hawks and Falcons of the World Dean Amadon, Leslie Brown, Country Life Books, 1968.

Biography

  • Highlight the Wild: The Art of the Reid Henrys, Bruce Henry; Palaquin Publishing Ltd., Hartley Wintney, Hampshire; 1986 ISBN 0-906814-01-4
  • Hosking, E (1977). "Obituary: David Morrison Reid-Henry (1919-1977)". British Birds. 70: 539–541. ISSN 0007-0335.

Pictures