Richard Roy Maconachie
Sir Richard Roy Maconachie,
naturalist and BBC
employee.
He studied at
Kent, England and University College, Oxford before joining the Indian Civil Service. In 1923, he played billiards with Amanullah Khan, then the Emir of Afghanistan.[1]
He was British Minister in
Tring, England (BMNH 1935-12-28). These bird skins became the basis of ornithologist Hugh Whistler's paper on the birds of Afghanistan in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
in 1944–45.
In 1936, he succeeded Charles Siepmann as head of Talks at the BBC. It was widely considered a "swing to the right".[2]
Offices held
Literature
- Warr, F. E.: Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring, BOC 1996.
References
- ^ Maximilian Drephal: Contesting Independence: Colonial Cultures of Sport and Diplomacy in Afghanistan, 1919–1949, in: J. Simon Rofe (ed.): Sport and Diplomacy – Games within Games, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2018, pp. 180–216 (here: p. 191).
- ^ Asa Briggs: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom – Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1995, p. 138.
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