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CodePX821
Dates1847-1909
Person NameSharpe; Richard Bowdler (1847-1909); Zoologist
SurnameSharpe
ForenamesRichard Bowdler
EpithetZoologist
ActivityMuseum Staff: Department of Zoology appointed Senior Assistant (lower section) 9 Sep 1872, replacing G R Gray in charge of the bird collections; 1st class assistant 21 Mar 1877; Assistant Keeper 18 Nov 1895, died in service 1909. He was author of many volumes of Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History), of the Aves section of History of the Collections (1906).

Went to Peterborough, then Loughborough Grammar School. Aged 16 came to London as a clerk at Messrs W H Smith & Son, where he stayed nearly 2 years, then moved to booksellers Bernard Quaritch. Aged 18 became librarian at the Zoological Society, stayed more than 5 years, before resigning in April 1872 to concentrate on writing.

He was elected Officier de l'instruction publique 1901. In 1891 he was awarded the gold medal for science by the Emperor of Austria and the presidency of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress 1905.
Tring Correspondent

Obituaries: Ibis 1910: 352-358 & Bulletin B.O.C. 25, 1910: 43-70. See also Mearns 1988, Who Was Who, DNB 1901-21, Ibis 1908 II: 199.
RelationshipsFather Mr T B Sharpe of Cookham. Married Emily Eliza Burrows 1867. Ten daughters.
Catalogue
RefNoTitle
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/688Sharpe, R Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/14Letterbook A-Z (1905): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/15Letterbook A-F (1906): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/4/436Sharpe, R Bowdler
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/4/215Sharpe, R. Bowdler
DF/TM/1/32/16Correspondence B: Bottger; Boucard; Boulenger; Bowdler Sharpe
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/5/227Sharpe, Richard. Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/24/337-349Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/38/368-370Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/TM/1/30/17Correspondence S: Sharp; Sharpe; Sherborn; Shipley
DF/ZOO/200/14/508-513Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/231Vertebrate Section, Reports to Trustees and other Official Documents
DF/ZOO/230/2/312-313Sharpe, R Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/12Letterbook A-L (1904): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/200/7/279-288aSharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/233/3/2/22Correspondence Sh
DF/TM/1/41/15Correspondence B: Boucard; Boucomont; Boulogne-sur-Mer; Bowditch; Bowdler Sharpe
DF/ZOO/230/9Letterbook N-Z (1902): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/200/10/409-415Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/36/375-378Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/40/390-394Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/31/359-366Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/42/347-354Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/20/308-311aSharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/45/403-406Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/2Letterbook A-Z (1897): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/10Letterbook A-P (1903): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/1Letterbook A-Z (1896): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals:
DF/ZOO/230/3Letterbook A-Z (1898): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/4Letterbook A-Z (1899): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/5Letterbook A-Z (1900): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/200/32/376-386Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/13Letterbook M-Z (1904): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals,
DF/ZOO/230/18Letterbook A-Z (1908): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/200/26/312-318Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/48/123-124Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/59/1Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, 1847-1909 (London)
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/396Howlett, Ernest
DF/ZOO/230/1/185Sharpe, R Bowdler
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/3/195Sharpe, Richard. Bowdler
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/7/218Sharpe, Richard. Bowdler-
DF/ZOO/230/20Copybook of out-letters of Richard Bowdler Sharpe
DF/ZOO/230/7Letterbook H-Z (1901): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals,
DF/ZOO/230/8Letterbook A-M (1902): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/230/6Letterbook A-G (1901): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/PAL/100/50/335Sharpe, R. Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/16Letterbook G-W (1906): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/200/8/399-407Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/23/385-399Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/16/423-433aSharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/21/363-372Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/22/278-282Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/28/313-319Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/30/376-382Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/39/416-426Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/33/310-317Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/34/333-336Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/35/475-483Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/41/392a-392cSharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/46/427Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/46/429-433Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/9/231Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/6/211Sharpe, Richard. Bowdler.
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/8/216Sharpe, Richard. Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/3/249-253Sharpe, R Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/4/330-333Sharpe, R Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/5/154Harmer, S F
DF/PH/2/6/4/2Staff Group Photograph: Tommaso Salvadori in Egg Corridor with other Museum staff including Richard Bowdler Sharpe (far left) and William Ogilvie Grant (far right)
DF/ZOO/230/11Letterbook R-Z (1903): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals,
DF/TM/1/123Correspondence: Bowdler-Sharpe; Godman
DF/ZOO/230/21Copybook of out-letters of Richard Bowdler Sharpe
DF/ZOO/200/19/289-291Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/12/115-119Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/5/192-192kSharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/20/388Whitehouse, Alfred
DF/ZOO/230/19Letterbook A-Z (1909): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/ZOO/200/37/411-416Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/50/172Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/17Letterbook A-Z (1907): Letters to Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others, mostly concerning the collections of birds and mammals
DF/PAL/100/39/253Sharpe, R. Bowdler
DF/PAL/100/46/309Sharpe, R. Bowdler
DF/ZOO/235/1/1/2/188Sharpe, R
DF/ZOO/200/18/459-478Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/25/343-349Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/27/428-438Sharpe, Richard Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/29/209-212Jardine, William
DF/ZOO/200/43/384-388Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/44/443-445Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/200/47/403-410Sharpe, [Richard] Bowdler
DF/ZOO/230/29Correspondence of Richard Bowdler Sharpe concerning C E Borchgrevink and the collections of the Southern Cross Expedition to Antarctica
DF/TM/1/23/4Correspondence S: Seale; Seebohm; Seidlitz; Shannon Limited; Sharp; Sharpe; Shelley; Shipley; Shipp
DF/ZOO/202/2'Miscellaneous documents': letters, lists, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the department, gathered by Dr A Günther
DF/ZOO/230Bird Section and Vertebrata Correspondence
DF/PH/2/1/3/7Staff Photographs by Benjamin Stone: Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist, standing in back colonnade
DF/ZOO/230/30Hume Collection: correspondence with Richard Bowdler Sharpe and others
DF/PH/2/6/5/1Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
DF/ZOO/233/3/1/2Correspondence: N-Z
DF/PH/3/1/808Gallery Photograph Album 2: Visit of 6 Akka people from the Ituri Forest, African Congo, to the Natural History Museum, group photograph, 1905.
DF/ZOO/202/1'Miscellaneous documents': letters, lists, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the department, gathered by Dr A Günther
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