Marmaduke Tunstall was an English

England

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 ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica (1771), probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature

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Tunstall was born at Burton Constable

Burton Constable

Burton Constable is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located approximately north east of Hull city centre and south east of the village of Skirlaugh....

 in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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. In 1760 he succeeded to the family estates of Scargill

Scargill

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, Hutton, Long Villers and Wycliffe

Wycliffe, County Durham

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. Being a Catholic, he was educated at Douai

Douai

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 in France. On completing his studies he took up residence in Welbeck Street, London

London

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, where he formed an extensive museum, as well as a large collection of living birds and animals. After his marriage in 1776 the museum was moved to Wycliffe, and at the time was one of the finest in England.

Tunstall became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Society of Antiquaries of London

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 at the age of twenty-one, and in 1771 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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Tunstall died at Wycliffe, and his estates passed to his half-brother, William Constable. Constable invited Thomas Bewick

Thomas Bewick

Thomas Bewick was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.- Early life and apprenticeship :Bewick was born at Cherryburn House in the village of Mickley, in the parish of Ovingham, Northumberland, England, near Newcastle upon Tyne on 12 August 1753...

 to Wycliffe where he spent two months making drawings from the bird specimens. The collection was eventually purchased by the Newcastle Society in 1822, and formed the basis of the Newcastle Museum.