Eric Ennion

Dr Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion (1900–1981) was a British artist, author,^[1] illustrator, and radio presenter,^[2] specialising in birds and other natural history subjects.

Following education at Epsom College^[2] and Caius College, Cambridge^[2] and training at St Mary's Hospital,^[2] he worked for twenty years as a general practitioner at a large country practice in Burwell on the fen borders of Cambridge,^[2] where he had spent his childhood. A career change in 1945 saw him become warden at the Field Studies Council's Flatford Mill Field Centre,^[2] and from 1950, founder and director of the Monks' House Bird Observatory at Seahouses, Northumberland, which he wrote about in The House on the Shore.^[2] Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists.

His son, Hugh, is also an accomplished artist.

Publications

• Adventurers Fen, Methuen (1942) ASIN B000X8EB86
• The British Bird Oxford University Press (1943)
• The story of migration, G.G. Harrap (1947)
• Life on the Sea Shore, Oxford University Press (1948)
• East Anglia, Issue 6 of The new naturalist (1949)
• The Lapwing, Methuen (1949)
• Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, Robert Hale (1951)
• Field Study Books, (1952)
• Ornithological report for Northumberland and Durham for 1956, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (1957)
• Bird study in a garden: a book for bird watchers, Penguin (1958)
• The House on the Shore: The Story of Monks' House Bird Observatory, Routledge and Kegan Paul (1960^[3])
• Birdwatching, Pelham (1963)
• Tracks, Clarendon (1967)
• The Clue Book BIRDS Oxford University Press (1968 - reprinted with corrections 1970, 1973)
• Birds and Seasons (introduction by Bob Walthew) Arlequin Press (1994) ISBN 0-9522019-2-5
• The Living Birds of Eric Ennion ( Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1982 ISBN 0-575-03157-3

Biography

• Eric Ennion: A Life of Birds by Bob Walthew; introduction by Robert Gillmor, The Wildlife Art Gallery (2003) ISBN 0-9526236-5-X

See also

• List of wildlife artists

References

External links

• One Man's Birds exhibition
• Signed prints