Frederick Webb Headley

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Frederick Webb Headley (1914)
by George Charles Beresford

Frederick Webb Headley (10 April 1856 – 25 November 1919) was an English naturalist and author of books on evolution and Darwinism.[1]

Frederick was the second son of Rev. Henry Headley, of Brinsop Vicarage, Herefordshire. He was educated at Harrow School and the

Haileybury College, Hertfordshire
, where he remained until shortly before his death following an operation.[2]

He was a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

Bibliography

  • The Structure and Life of Birds, London and New York, Macmillan and Co. (1895)
  • Problems of Evolution, London, Duckworth (1900)
  • Fauna and Flora of Haileybury, Hartford, Stephen Austin (1902)
  • Darwinism and Modern Socialism, London, Methuen (1909)
  • The Flight of Birds, London, Witherby & Co. (1912)
  • The Country Round Haileybury, Cambridge, University Press (private printing, 1920)

This last title was left unfinished at Headley's death; it was completed for the press by W. Kennedy, who also added a second section on local history and antiquities.

References

  1. JSTOR 4073208
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  2. ^ "Headley, Frederick Webb (HDLY874FW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.