Alfred Hart Everett
Alfred Hart Everett (11 October 1848 – 18 June 1898) was a British civil servant and administrator in Borneo as well as being a naturalist and natural history collector.
Career
Everett was born on Norfolk Island to British parents: George, the doctor at the penal colony, from Wiltshire, and Anna-Maria, from Jersey. In 1869 he went to Sarawak in north-western Borneo in order to collect natural history specimens. After two years there he entered the service of the Kingdom of Sarawak, as a Resident in the Baram district, under the White Rajahs. In 1878 and 1879 he was engaged by the Royal Society and British Association to explore 'the Caves of Borneo' in search of the remains of ancient man. The explorations were made around Bau and Niah but were unsuccessful in their primary aim[1] (although the orang utan jaw which later formed part of Piltdown Man may well have been one result)[2]. In 1885 he was appointed the Rajah’s Consul to the Court of the Sultan of Brunei.[3][4] He later served in North Borneo in the administration of the British North Borneo Company.[5]
In 1891 Everett became a member of the British Ornithologists' Union.[6] He never married. He died in London.[3]
Zoological collecting
Everett collected for the Marquess of Tweedale and Walter Rothschild, as well as others. He is best known for the collections he made of birds and mammals in Borneo and the Philippines. He is commemorated in the names of several animals, including:
- Birds
- Mammals
- Frogs
- Fish
References
Notes
- ^ Royal Society
- ^ New Scientist
- ^ a b Bernau.
- ^ SARAWAK News (1885).
- ^ National Museum Wales.
- ^ The Ibis
Sources
- Anon (1898). "Death of Mr Alfred Hart Everett". The Sarawak Gazette 29: 136–137.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; & Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9.
- Anon (12 January 1885). "SARAWAK News". The Straits Times: 3. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes18850112.2.32.aspx.
- "Genealogical notes on the Benests of St Heliers, their ancestors & descendants". Bernau, Charles A. (Compiler). Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00bern/genealogicalnote00bern_djvu.txt. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- "Everett, Alfred Hart". Biodiversity and Systematic Biology – Collections Sources. National Museum Wales. http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/2768/. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
- The Ibis, Quarterly Journal of Ornithology Volume II, London. 1896.
- A.Hart Everett (1878). "Distribution of minerals in Sarawak". J.Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society Volume 1, Singapore, pp13-30.
- A.Hart Everett (1880). "Report on the Exploration of the Caves of Borneo". Proc.Royal Society Volume 30, London, pp310-324.
- L.Harrison Matthews (1981). "The Missing Links (10) Will we ever know the truth?". New Scientist Volume 91, No.1260 London, p26.
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Everett, Alfred Hart |
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Date of birth |
October 1848 |
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Date of death |
18 June 1898 |
Place of death |
London |