Sir Charles Frederic Belcher OBE (1876 – 1970) was an Australia

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, author

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, British colonial jurist

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 and amateur ornithologist.

For much of his life he served the British Colonial Service

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 in Africa

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 and elsewhere. In 1930, he was appointed Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago

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, an office he held for the next seven years. Other positions held include Assistant Judge in Zanzibar

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, Puisne Judge in Kenya

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, Member of the Appeals Court of East Africa, Attorney General and later High Court Judge of Nyasaland

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, Chief Justice of Cyprus

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 and President of the Appeal Court of the West Indies.

He was a founding member of both the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

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 (RAOU) in 1901 and the Bird Observers Club in 1905. He was elected a Fellow of the RAOU

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 in 1949. His published books include:

Works

• Belcher, Charles F. (1914). The Birds of the District of Geelong, Australia
  The Birds of the District of Geelong, Australia
  The Birds of the District of Geelong, Australia is a book published in 1914 by W.J. Griffiths in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Authored by Charles Frederic Belcher, it was published in octavo format , containing 414 pages bound in navy blue buckram. It is illustrated with numerous black-and-white...
  
  . W.J. Griffiths: Geelong.
• Belcher, Charles Frederic. (1930). The Birds of Nyasaland. Technical Press: London.