Perrine Millais Moncrieff

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Perrine Millais Moncrieff CBE (1893-1979) was a New Zealand author, conservationist and amateur ornithologist.

She was the granddaughter of Sir John Millais. She moved with her husband from Britain to New Zealand after the end of the First World War where they settled at Nelson. She was the first female President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), 1932-1933.

She is credited with almost single-handedly resonsible for setting aside land that would eventaully be the Abel Tasman National Park.[1]

Books she authored include:

  • Moncrieff, P. (1925). New Zealand Birds and How to Identify Them. Whitcombe & Tombs: Auckland. (Field-guide. 5 editions published to 1961).
  • Moncrieff, P. (1965). People Came Later. Author: Nelson.
  • Moncrieff, P. (1976). The Rise and Fall of David Riccio. Ambassador: Wellington.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Young, David (2004). Our Islands, Our Selves. Dunedin: University of Otago Press. ISBN 1-877-276-94-4. 
  • Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3
  • Secker, H.L. (1980). Obituary. Perrine Millais Moncrieff. Emu 80: 171.


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