Newman, L.H. — British Moths and their Haunts

Edmund Ward Leicester 143, b/w photos. . HB. Vg in slightly worn d/w (in removable protective sleeve). Endpapers partly browned, with original owner's name.. Attractive dust jacket design by Creina Glegg. With a Foreword by Peter Scott, the well-known artist and naturalist, and the author's colleague at the BBC. L. Hugh Newman (1909-1993) was one of the most distinguished butterfly farmers in the UK. His father, Leonard Newman, was an acknowledged entomologist, started Britain's first butterfly farm, in 1894 at Bexley, Kent, which in due course he passed on to his son. Hugh Newman provided researchers, collectors and garden lovers with butterflies. Among his clients was Winston Churchill, who periodically bought butterflies from his farm to release them in his garden at Chartwell. Newman was also an entomology writer and BBC radio presenter (Nature Parliament)..