Brian Houghton Hodgson was an early naturalist

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 and ethnologist working in British India and Nepal where he was an English civil servant. He described many species, especially birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth

Edward Blyth was an English zoologist and pharmacist. He was one of the founders of zoology in India....

. He specialized in the studied Tibetan Buddhism and wrote extensively on a range of topics relating to linguistics and religion and was among the minority within the British administration of the time that overtly opposed the introduction of English as a language in Indian schools.
Hodgson was born at Lower Beech, Prestbury, Cheshire

Prestbury, Cheshire

Prestbury is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Prestbury is a long, narrow parish covering 1,165 hectares to the west of the Peak Park foothills and to the east of the sandstone ridge which is...

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