Walter Oudney
Walter Oudney (1790 – 12 January 1824) was a Scottish physician, budding naturalist and briefly African explorer.
Biography
He received a medical doctorate at Edinburgh in 1817.[1] In 1819 he became a member of the Wernerian Natural History Society alongside his friend and colleague James Robinson Scott.[2]
Oudney has been described as quiet, self-effacing, and a short man with a weak constitution particularly unsuited to the rigors of African exploration. He was also brave and resolute.[3]
Bornu Mission
After the failure of
Stricken by illness, Oudney died on 12 January 1824 in the village of Murmur, located near the town of
In 1826 the two-volume "Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824" was published, describing the African exploits of Oudney, Denham and Clapperton.[5]
References
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 354.
- ^ Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, vol 3, p.539
- ^ a b Bovill, E. W. (1968). "Ch. 5: The Bornu Mission". The Niger Explored. London: Oxford University Press.
- ^ "Oudney, Dr, Walter". The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1825. Vol. 9. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1825. pp. 446–447.
- ^ Denham, Dixon; Clapperton, Hugh; Oudney, Walter (1826). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824 (2 volumes). London: John Murray. Scans: Volume 1, Volume 2
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Oudney.
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Death of Dr. Oudney
- CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names by Umberto Quattrocchi
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