John James Lewis Bonhote M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.

British Ornithologists' Union

The British Ornithologists' Union aims to encourage the study of birds in Britain, Europe and elsewhere, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation....

 (1875 - 1922) was an English

England

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 ornithologist.

Bonhote was born in London

London

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 and educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He was appointed private secretary to the Governor of the Bahamas in 1897, and was sub-director of the Zoological Gardens at Giza from 1913 to 1919. Bonhote was joint secretary (with Ernst Hartert

Ernst Hartert

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert was a German ornithologist. Hartert was born in Hamburg. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of his private museum at Tring from 1892 to 1929....

) of the 4th International Ornithological Congress

International Ornithological Congress

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 in London in 1905, secretary and treasurer of the Avicultural Society, secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union

British Ornithologists' Union

The British Ornithologists' Union aims to encourage the study of birds in Britain, Europe and elsewhere, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation....

 (1907-1913) and secretary-treasurer of the British Ornithologists' Club

British Ornithologists' Club

The British Ornithologists' Club was founded in October 1892 to promote discussion between ornithologists and to produce a journal, their Bulletin, which has been published continuously since that year....

(1920-1922).