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Charles Waterton (June 3, 1782 - May 27, 1865) was an English naturalist and explorer. June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ...
1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ...
1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ...
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Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ...
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Life
Waterton was born at Walton Hall, West Yorkshire near Wakefield. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. His Roman Catholic ancestry is alleged to include seven saints: Vladimir the Great, St Anne of Russia, the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb, King Stephen of Hungary, Queen Margaret of Scotland and Mathilde of Germany together with Thomas More, Count Humbert III of Savoy and several European royal families. Walton Hall is a stately home in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Wakefield. ...
Wakefield Wakefield is a city in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Leeds, and by the River Calder. ...
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The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
Detail of the Millenium of Russia monument in Novgorod (1862) representing St Vladimir and his family. ...
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In 1804 he travelled to Guyana to take charge of his uncle's estates near Georgetown. In 1812 he started to explore the hinterland of Guyana, making four journeys between then and 1824. He later described his discoveries in his book Waterton's Wanderings in South America. He was a highly skilled taxidermist and preserved many of the animals he encountered on his expeditions. He is credited with bringing the anaesthetic agent curare to Europe. Victoria Law Courts Georgetown, estimated population 250,000 (1998), is the capital and largest city of Guyana, located in the Demerara-Mahaica region. ...
Strychnos toxifera by Koehler 1887 Curare is a substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine. ...
In the 1820s he returned to Walton Hall and built a nine-foot-high wall around three miles of his estate, turning it into the world's first wildfowl and nature reserve. He also invented the bird nesting box. The Waterton Collection is now in Wakefield Museum. Falcated Duck at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands centre, Gloucestershire, England Wildfowl or waterfowl, also waterbirds, is the collective term for the approximately 147 species of swans, geese and ducks, classified in the order Anseriformes, family Anatidae. ...
A nature reserve (natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ...
Waterton died after fracturing his ribs and injuring his liver in a fall on his estate. His body is interred near the spot where the accident happened.
Alleged Eccentricities A range of colourful stories have been handed down about Charles Waterton, not all of which are verifiable, but which add up to a popular portrait of an archetypal aristocratic eccentric: Archetype is defined as the first original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated. ...
Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ...
Eccentric is from the Greek for out of the centre, as opposed to concentric, in the centre. ...
- Waterton had his hair cut in a crew cut at a time when a full head of hair piled up or brushed forward was in style.
- In 1817, he climbed St. Peter's in Rome and left his gloves on top of the lightning conductor. Pope Pius VII asked him to remove the gloves, which he did.
- Waterton sometimes enjoyed biting the legs of his guests from under the dinner table, imitating a dog.
- He tried to fly by jumping from the top of an outhouse on his estate, calling the exercise "Navigating the atmosphere"
- He devised his own methods for preserving animal skins and used them to create unusual caricatures of his enemies. He also utilised his taxidermy skills to create models critiquing political events of the day
- He believed in the medical remedy of blood-letting, which was largely an abandoned practice at that point in time. When ill he bled himself heavily
- He fell in love with an orphan baby called Anne Edmonstone who was descended from Arawak and Scottish royalty, waiting until she was 17 years old (and he was 48) before marrying her in a Belgian convent. Anne died a year later during childbirth, for which Waterton blamed himself and thereafter he is reputed to have slept on the floor as a penance with a block of wood for a pillow.
Charles Waterton also had a road and a school named after him (Waterton Junior and Infant school). Comedian Drew Carey sports a typical crew cut. ...
City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area - City Proper 1285 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ...
Pius VII, O.S.B., born Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti (August 14, 1740 – August 20, 1823), was Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823. ...
Bloodletting (or blood-letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a popular medical practice from antiquity up to the late 19th century, involving the withdrawal of often considerable quantities of blood from a patient in the belief that this would cure or prevent illness and disease. ...
The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the friendly Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the Caribbean. ...
Passions Waterton was an early opponent of pollution. He fought a long-running court case against the owners of a soapworks which had been set up near his estate in 1839, and sent out poisonous chemicals which severely damaged the trees in the park and polluted the lake. He was eventually successful in having the soapworks moved. Water pollution Pollution is the release of environmental contaminants. ...
Legacy - Walton Hall is now open to the public as a nature trail
- Waterton Lakes, now a national park in Alberta, Canada, was named for Charles Waterton by Thomas Blakiston in 1858.
- Charles Waterton also has a Wakefield road and primary school named after him.
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Thomas Wright Blakiston Thomas Wright Blakiston (born Lymington October 15 1832, died 1891) was an English explorer and naturalist. ...
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