Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet

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Sir

Hugh Francis Ivo Elliott

Allahabad, India
Died21 December 1989(1989-12-21) (aged 76)
Oxford
, UK
NationalityBritish
Education
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
OccupationColonial civil servant
Known forNature conservation, ornithology
Notable workThe Herons of the World
SpouseElizabeth Margaret Phillipson
AwardsOBE (1953); Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark (1973)

Sir Hugh Francis Ivo Elliott, 3rd Baronet,

ornithologist and colonial civil servant.[2][3][4][5]

Born in India in 1913, the elder son of Sir Ivo Elliott, 2nd Baronet, he was educated at the

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of his service to the community on Tristan da Cunha.[6] He returned to Africa in 1953, working in the Ministry of Natural Resources in Dar es Salaam; he was promoted to Permanent Secretary in 1958 and remained in that position until retirement in 1961 shortly before Independence. While at the Ministry he made an important contribution to the development of National Parks, in particular the creation of the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area
. In his spare time, he was an avid and serious birdwatcher, both in Tanganyika, collecting specimens, making systematic observations, and publishing articles in ornithological journals, and on Tristan, making an important contribution to the ornithology of the islands.

Upon retiring from the colonial civil service in 1961 he was appointed Commonwealth Liaison Officer for the

International Council for Bird Preservation
1980–81.

His highly regarded book, The Herons of the World, written in co-authorship with James Hancock, was published in 1978.[7] He also wrote, in co-authorship with Jacqueline Henricot, a two-volume book entitled "World Guide to National Parks and Nature Reserves", but it was never published because of his illness in his latter years.

He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (d. 2007), his daughters Susan Elspeth Elliott (d. 2017) and Judith Margery Elliott, and his son Clive Christopher Hugh Elliott (d. 2018).

References

  1. ^ "Sir Hugh Francis Ivo Elliott". National Portrait Gallery. 27 October 1971. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Hugh (Francis Ivo) Elliott.". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2004.
  3. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1990.tb00288.x
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  4. ^ "Elliott, Sir Hugh (Francis Ivo)". Who Was Who. 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet". Memim.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  6. ^ "No. 39732". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1953. p. 24.
  7. ISBN 0-905562-05-4
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Further reading

  • "Sir Hugh Elliott", The Times (London), 10 January 1990, p. 14.
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Ivo Elliott
 Baronet
(of Limpsfield)
1961–1989 		Succeeded by
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