John Maclair Boraston Manchester bird author 1862-1923
Stephen Heery said
Fri Feb 1 12:42 PM, 2019
In March 2016 I asked the question does anyone know anything about John Maclair Boraston, a bird book author from Stretford. Wrote Nature's Tones and Undertones 1921. Wrote about birds around Stetford and beyond.
Well, if anyone is still interested I have found out. The 1911 census gives him as Buyer of Textiles, in the Export of Textiles industry.
This would account for the journeys he made to Brazil (four in all I think), with which Britain had a cotton trade and about Which he wrote in the Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society 1898 vol 14. He was a Greek scholar and wrote about the birds in Homer's writing which only an ornithologist and a Greek scholar could do.
Anyway, that all. Just thought I would round off my former posting.
In March 2016 I asked the question does anyone know anything about John Maclair Boraston, a bird book author from Stretford. Wrote Nature's Tones and Undertones 1921. Wrote about birds around Stetford and beyond.
Well, if anyone is still interested I have found out. The 1911 census gives him as Buyer of Textiles, in the Export of Textiles industry.
This would account for the journeys he made to Brazil (four in all I think), with which Britain had a cotton trade and about Which he wrote in the Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society 1898 vol 14. He was a Greek scholar and wrote about the birds in Homer's writing which only an ornithologist and a Greek scholar could do.
Anyway, that all. Just thought I would round off my former posting.
Stephen Heery