Frank Ludlow

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Frank Ludlow OBE (1885-1972) was an English officer stationed in the British Mission at Lhasa and a naturalist. He was born in Chelsea, London and studied at West Somerset County School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He taught at Karachi, Tibet and Kashmir and was in charge of the British Mission in Lhasa from 1942-43. During his time in India he studied natural history and collected birds and botanical specimens. He made expeditions to parts of the Himalayas and Tibet along with George Sheriff (1898-1967). He collected nearly 7000 bird specimens which are now in the Natural History Museum. The species Alcippe ludlowi and Bhutanitis ludlowi are named after him.

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• Obituary. Ibis 1974:234
• Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.