Frank Ludlow

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Frank Ludlow OBE (1885-27 March 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. Ludlow received a bachelor of arts from Cambridge in the natural science in 1908. During this time he studied botany under Professor Marshal Ward, father of Frank Kingdon-Ward. He taught at Sind College Karachi (where he became vice principal and professor of biology and lecturer in English). During World War I he was commissioned into the Ninety-seventh Indian Infantry and after the war he went into the Indian Education Service. In 1927 he retired to Srinagar, Kashmir and travelled extensively in the Himalayas including Tibet and Kashmir. In 1929 he met George Sheriff while staying in Kashgar with the consul general Williamson. He later took 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.

The standard author abbreviation Ludlow is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

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Obituary. Ibis 1974:234
Fletcher, H. R. 1975. A Quest of Flowers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.