John Clegg Scientific Letters 1948-1957

Natural History Museum

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The Natural History Museum was first opened in 1881. It contained collections that had originally been part of the British Museum including collections of Sir Hans Sloane, a physician and collector of natural curiosities, and Joseph Banks the botanist who travelled with Captain James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour, 1768-1771. It was Sir Richard Owen, Superintendent of the British Museum’s natural history collection who persuaded the Government that a new museum was needed. From the guide ...

Council of the British Naturalists' Association

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Clegg, John., 1909-1998

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John Clegg (1909-1998) was born in Ormskirk in Lancashire 7th April 1909. In the second world war he became a squadron leader, eventually in command of a photographic service experience in Ceylon and Singapore. In 1949 he was Curator of Haslemere Educational Museum, until 1962, when he was Education Officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at Sandy in Buckinghamshire He was asked to be consultant to Frederick Warne [Publishers] LTD, later Pen...